[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on desktop

2006-02-06 Thread Jaideep Das
Is solaris express a OS or is it a software that runs on top of solaris OS?, If its a OS then where can I get it from? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on desktop

2006-02-06 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 14:36, Jaideep Das wrote: Is solaris express a OS or is it a software that runs on top of solaris OS?, If its a OS then where can I get it from? It is an pre-release of the bits that will become the future release of the Solaris operating system and it is build from

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on desktop

2006-02-06 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Jaideep Das wrote: Is solaris express a OS or is it a software that runs on top of solaris OS?, If its a OS then where can I get it from? Where have you been the last 18+ months? :-) Solaris Express is an OS; you can get it from www.sun.com/solarisexpress. -- Rich

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on desktop

2006-02-04 Thread Ivan Wang
I am a average desktop user, is open solaris mature enough for desktop use, my system config is: AMD Athlon XP 2000+,1024 RAM,80GB HDD,Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 4000,ASUS Mother Board. pHi, pIt depends on what your desktop activities are, and which open solaris distribution you choose to run.

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on desktop

2006-02-04 Thread Jake Maciejewski
Nexenta is a good desktop distro if you're familiar with Ubuntu or Debian. There's also Solaris Express, but it isn't pure OpenSolaris. Nvidia's driver should work for your GF 4MX, so you can have 3D support. Otherwise I'm going to guess you have an nForce 2 chipset, which ought to be