Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-02 Thread Edward McAuley
Which desktop are you running? KDE (as a user) and Gnome (a rare root session, occasionally as a user) and xterm (skills playground) with no problems so far. It works for you but when it comes to stability I've found it lacking. That's fine. It's very likely explained by the difference in

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-08-01 Thread Edward McAuley
Nice Job! Persistence and creativity are excellent traits. It really is not a matter of giving up, though. As I said, if I had another notebook, I'd give it a shot but this is my only notebook, currently and I use it for business, every day. Also, I do run as many as six, x86 and x86-64

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-31 Thread Edward McAuley
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 12:11 -0700, Edward McAuley wrote: Uh, let's see. Beautiful interface (as attractive as the Mac or Vista), intuitively laid out, ease of use, UNIX (like), open source...it's already here. You can download it or buy it. Suse 10.2 Please look at this latest

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-30 Thread Edward McAuley
Uh, let's see. Beautiful interface (as attractive as the Mac or Vista), intuitively laid out, ease of use, UNIX (like), open source...it's already here. You can download it or buy it. Suse 10.2 Please look at this latest version, it is stunning. The beautifully designed and intuitive

Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-30 Thread Edward McAuley
Thank you Alan. I am somewhat confused regarding their approach. They are saying the are going to deliver these drivers, on one hand, but on the other hand they are claiming they cannot because they don't own all of the IP (that part of the development efforts are owned and copyrighted by

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-30 Thread Edward McAuley
The argument I hear -and have sometimes made is: Microsoft got into the back office -with a very lame server operating system, because it was ubiquitous and perceived as easy to use, versus Novell, Banyan, UNIX, MVS, VMS, etc., at the time. Microsoft became ubiquitous because IBM was

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-29 Thread Edward McAuley
spy153, The answer to your original question regarding the installation of applications, is an emphatic NO! Solaris is NOT as easy as windows for the installation of many applications. Also, to be clear, the applications you run on Windows WILL NOT work on Solaris without using some form of

[osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Edward McAuley
Hi folks, Is anyone aware of a source who has drivers for the ATI X1900 that will work on Solaris 10? Alternatively does anyone know of someone who has a build plan specifying an acceptable version of X11 or xorg, the proper libraries, etc., and maybe a make procedure, to build a driver from

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-29 Thread Edward McAuley
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Re: [osol-discuss] Drivers for ATI X1900

2007-07-29 Thread Edward McAuley
Thanks Ken. I'll track this stuff down and if I find joy, I'll come back with the answers and procedures, in detail. ejm This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org