1) Audio is very old on Solaris/OpenSolaris and not in good condition in fact. But try audiotest app i terminal and then dive to man pages
2) Same thing. Sun have stupid implementaion of X (maybe because of PR - It is our own give us money). It is a problem of Intel driver because of missing GEM but no problem on OpenBSD with missing GEM too so in the end we are again in bad implementation of X 3) Was somewhere on forum. Try to search for that 1) True in some steps eg. search for packages and speed a) this can be solved with ndd and changing TCP Window receive and send sizes b) not so much for me, depends on where you are c) true but they plan to change it but who knows when d) take a look at Nasdaq and so on (archives) SUNW means Sun Workstation e) use -v switch and read man pages for tools before using them f) same as e) g) you can create your own mirror. There are docs about it 2) True. OpenSolaris user land sucks hard. And when you want to compile something by yourself it sucks much more. So I can really recommend to use what's in repositories 3) Sun Studio is no help for you as non standard libraries are used in some places in Solaris/OpenSolaris so you will try SUNWgcc for compile and nothing, then someone from Sun say to you that you must use Sun Studio but even with that you can't compile this app thanks to non standard libraries 4) Quite crazy, but after you will read at least this http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5789/drivertut1?l=en&a=view you will understand those names and why they are made so. Don't forgot, that Solaris was one of those commercial dinosaurs which were trying to be different so much that in the end they are near death in some areas about network devices. Don't think that if Linux use eth0 that it's good idea at all. On Solaris/OpenSolaris are devices named with driver name in mind 5) man beadm and man zfs are your friends 6) If you don't buy subscriptions then you must be happy with Google/Forums/IRC and so on. Same for any other OS. If you want ZFS features in Dolphin then wrote them or pay for it someone Depends on what you want, but I'm way more happy with OpenBSD then with OpenSolaris on my laptop. OpenSolaris is great OS when you have supported HW and when packages in base system and repositories are enough for you. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
