On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 13:47 -0400, David R. Meyer wrote: > OpenSolaris runs VERY well in VMware server. You need to > download ALL THREE PARTS of the DVD and then put them > together (instructions on how to do that are on the Sun > site around the download area). Once you do that, install it.
Ok. thanks. I saw an interview of linus recently and he said that he uses distributions which are easy to install because that's the point of distributions. he stays away from the compile everything yourself distributions (gentoo and LFS, I guess). I have the same viewpoint. the distro is there to make things easier. not harder. > It found ALL of my hardware properly the first time, and > Firefox & Thunderbird were there right from the start. > Great system, which I think is why I am seeing more of it > in the corp. data centers I go in to. OK. I'll have to try it then. I need another hard drive :-). I only have a laptop (desktops are too, ah, immobile), and I'm almost out of space on this one :-). I think I can move stuff out to an external drive though. How much partition space do I need for a basic install (solaris plus graphical interface of choice (gnome?) plus dev tools. I'll just add 1-2GB for data (this is going to be a test install, mainly to see if I like it). At $DAYJOB the servers are FreeBSD (used to be some sort of linux, i think debian). performance has been very good. I used to work with FreeBSD. switched to linux though since linux moves faster. I like FreeBSD for company servers though. I'm sure I'll like OpenSolaris for company servers too. I've heard very good things about solaris and likely that good stuff is also in opensolaris. hehehe, if ZFS can speed up my svn cp/svn mv on multi-hundred-megabyte svn subdirectories, I'm switching my work desktop to opensolaris ;-). I saw a recent shootout between EXT4 and ZFS though and EXT4 was performing pretty well. Anyone on-list testing out EXT4? hehe, not that I think any filesystem will help me (unless it's a filesystem on a ramdisk). The drives on laptops are just slow by design, and the kinds of things I need to do with svn involve working copies so large that even very fast drives wouldn't help me a lot. tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
