Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:46:48 Robert Hartzell wrote:
>> Kern Sibbald wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:15:40 Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>>> Kern Sibbald wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:31:45 Robert Hartzell wrote:
>>>>>> Kern Sibbald wrote:
>>>>>>> Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that
>>>>>>> they somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not
>>>>>>> significantly improved their user interface -- a big disappointment
>>>>>>> for me.  I ended up with a default system that had a Java user
>>>>>>> interface and a /home/kern that was read-only (can you imagine that
>>>>>>> by default your home directory is read-only?).  I finally gave up.
>>>>>> What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently
>>>>>> using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0
>>>>> That surprised me too.  It was a full Java user interface, and all I
>>>>> did was about 6 months ago install an OpenSolaris.  It is possible that
>>>>> they gave me the choice between two user interfaces and I made the bad
>>>>> choice.
>>>> "Java Desktop" is what Sun is calling their Gnome-based desktop, afaik.
>>>>  They do offer two interface choices out of the box: the Gnome "Java
>>>> Desktop", or CDE.  Much though I detest Gnome, it's the more usable of
>>>> the two.
>>> Hmmm.  That sounds like what I saw. I vaguely remember trying CDE, but it
>>> was too different, so I chose the Gnome desktop, which like you I don't
>>> particularly like, but I can work with it.  However, Gnome running under
>>> or implemented in Java makes it *much* slower and nothing like what I
>>> would call a "normal"  Gnome desktop running under X Window.
>> Everything described here sounds exactly like Solaris 10 and nothing
>> like Opensolaris... Are you sure it was Opensolaris that you tried?
> 
> Uh, no, I am not sure.  I downloaded an ISO from the Sun site, and booted it.
> 
> Hmmm.  The image is:  sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd.iso
> 
> so it does look like I was dealing with Solaris rather than OpenSolaris.
> 
> Kern
> 
That is Solaris 10 Update 5 which by the way is way behind the current 
release of Solaris 10 Update 8

Please try opensolaris i think you will be surprised.
http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp
top right OpenSolaris 2009.06


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