A Weekend Look At OpenSolaris 2009.06

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The nfo driver supports it: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ (works on 2008.11 as well)

That's a pain in the ass to get it to work. And I don't even know if it supports my card. It's not listed and the newer one is stated as "alpha test version". I can't accept this. It's open solaris duty to do something about considering that my card perfectly works on Windows and Linux without any hassles.

[etacarinae]

I'm on Windows now. However, it should be something like NVIDIA MCP67 if I remember well.

The nfo driver supports it: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ (works on 2008.11 as well)

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What ethernet card is it ? (scanpci data if possible)

I'm on Windows now. However, it should be something like NVIDIA MCP67 if I remember well.

[etacarinae]

Forking stuff is, unfortunately, largely a matter of ego (compiz/beryl is just one prime example of this overrated idiocy).

And could you enlighten us all what does forking have to do with OpenSolaris, which can't use any Linux kernel stuff anyway as the licenses are not compatible. Moreover, the kernels are way too different for such a port to make sense anyway.

In other words -- no one needs OpenSolaris.

And if I need it and everyone else who uses it needs it, then we are all fictional and do not exist, right ?

[susikala]

Besides, there wouldn't a distribution if there wasn't a community around it no? The great thing about FOSS is the ability to port any portion of a complete stack of software creates a low barrier of entry for different ideas of what makes up a distribution.

Forking stuff is, unfortunately, largely a matter of ego (compiz/beryl is just one prime example of this overrated idiocy). If the egos of some people in the open source world were smaller, we'd all be benefiting from it.

In other words -- no one needs OpenSolaris.

[etacarinae]

Ok, it's 2 years I'm waiting that OpenSolaris supports my motherboard's gibabit ethernet card. If it doesn't this time I'm gonna say goodbye to it once for all.

What ethernet card is it ? (scanpci data if possible)

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Ok, it's 2 years I'm waiting that OpenSolaris supports my motherboard's gibabit ethernet card. If it doesn't this time I'm gonna say goodbye to it once for all.

[etacarinae]

Mentioning the PulseAudio integration as missing in a post about OpenSolaris...which has never had anything to do with PulseAudio...heh

Anyway, what phoronix failed to mention, is that 2009.06 will finally have a newer gcc stack (4.3.2) [1], and I believe this is more important than having a slightly modified volume control.

[1] The commit for it: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermai...il/013199.html

[Craig73]

Whats the point of this distro even? Is there any novelty at all to run a solaris kernel these days?

I believe there are many who are quite invested in the Solaris platform, and Sun has created technologies to allow building and maintaining robust infrastructure.

Besides, there wouldn't a distribution if there wasn't a community around it no? The great thing about FOSS is the ability to port any portion of a complete stack of software creates a low barrier of entry for different ideas of what makes up a distribution.

[That can also be viewed as a weakness, but that will likely improve as we decide which parts of this wave of custom everything is actually worthwhile]

[cruiseoveride]

Whats the point of this distro even? Is there any novelty at all to run a solaris kernel these days?