On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:39:17PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > Venky TV wrote: > > Hey Jim, > > > > Welcome to Silk! We've talked often on the OpenSolaris mailing lists. > > Looking forward to meeting you at FOSS.IN. I could certainly use > > some help getting some of the Linux zealots here to try out > > OpenSolaris! :) (Biju, you there?!) > > Is it really that good? I wouldn't mind trying it out. How does it > compare to Ubuntu as a desktop OS?
Well, it'll take a little longer to get it as polished as Ubuntu on the desktop. You should check out the Belenix[1] LiveCD to see where it is heading. (The latest version comes bundled with Compiz, so it is not so far behind when it comes to eye-candy! You need an Nvidia display card to be able to use it though.) As Eugen mentioned, with Ian Murdoch on board, we should be fixing one of the main problems - package management - very soon. Venky. References: [1] http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/
