Roman Strobl wrote:
>
> 2008.05 gives us an opportunity to re-introduce Solaris at universities, 
> because it will work on hardware students use (well mostly).

Yes except for the excessive memory usage, which is a killer ;-( 

The audience at the last two Sun Tech Days were mostly students and of
everyone who showed up at the installfest tables over both events, I
can think of only two people who had enough RAM in their laptop for a
comfortable install (both of whom were already S10 users, so a
different demographic). Everyone else ranged from "sorry kid there's
just no way" to "um, yes that shold work but it'll take a while and
won't be as fast as your Linux install so let me set some expectations..."

If we're serious about making it attractive to students the memory
usage is IME the main problem to address.


-- 
Jyri J. Virkki - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Microsystems
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