Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to use OpenSolaris

2010-02-21 Thread Peter Jones
I suspect George represents a large new user community who are faced with a steep learning curve when learning a new os such as Opensolaris.My personal view is that the repository gives a much easier path to install software which is very much welcomed by the user.The more recent unstable develo

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to use OpenSolaris

2010-02-21 Thread Peter Jones
I suspect George represents a large new user community who are faced with a steep learning curve when learning a new such as Opensolaris.My personal view is that the repository gives a much easier path to install software which is very much welcomed by the user.The more recent unstable developme

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to use OpenSolaris

2010-02-21 Thread Brian Cameron
George: Hi there to all, dear friends! 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 Note that OSS (the Boomer project) will be integrated into the next release of OpenS

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to use OpenSolaris

2010-02-21 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
if you're running opensolaris 2009.06, i'd day you're running a very old version of opensolaris. In a month time, in march, a new version will be released, in the mean time, you can check what it should be like by running the dev version of opensolaris. The procedure to upgrade to dev is documented

[osol-discuss] Reasons to use OpenSolaris

2010-02-21 Thread George Silviu Enea
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 ins