On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Manish Chakravarty<manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.osnews.com/story/21859/OpenSolaris_a_Bad_Linux_Distribution_ >
Interesting. His config has enough RAM. However there are considerations. Number of SMF services have been growing (including contributions due to IPS). Newer Gnome has more stuff starting out of the box. The Nvidia card that person is using is ancient and the Osol bundled Nvidia driver is very new with not that good support for older cards. Even my GeForce 7300 does not perform well with the latest driver. I am not sure what he means by slow installation. No timing is given, but given that Osol uses LZMA compression by default on the CDROM, decompression tends to squeeze the juice out of Pentiums in my experience. Athlons and Core2s are able to sustain the demand placed by LZMA. Unfortunately the comment on the package manager matches other comments on the package manager I have seen elsewhere and tends to be true. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
