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 -- Robert W Hartzell bear at rwhartzell.net RwHartzell.Net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
