George Silviu Enea wrote:
> Hi there to all, dear friends!
>
> I`m new to OpenSolaris, and in the last 2 years I left Windows and tried
> several Linux distributions. At the moment I`m using openSUSE 11.3 and I love
> it, but... something`s missing... I didn`t found the perfect OS... yet...
>
> Came to know about OpenSolaris... I installed it, but everything seems to be
> hard... the sound does not work.. cannot find any new updates... I used
> OpenSolaris 2009.06
>
> But the reason I`m opening this thread is to ask which are the reasons for
> using OpenSolaris, and what OpenSolaris offers for a everyday desktop user
> that Linux or Windows does not offer... I enjoy OpenSolaris... but everything
> seems to be so difficult for me to do (install programs for example). I
> really want to know all the benefits it is offering, and if there is a reason
> to pass all this difficulties...
>
> Please give me some reason, and I`ll use OpenSolaris, I`ll learn how works
> and I`ll spread the word about it here in my country.
>
> Thank you so so much!!! Greatly appreciate it!
>
dtrace, zfs, et al are really the only good reasons to use opensolaris,
but as far as desktop OSs go, it sucks. rocks for a workstation or
server, but it's nowhere near ready for the desktop.
