Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Apr 2007 14:08 UTC, submitted by flanque
"One reason that people might choose to miss out on OpenSolaris is because we're (in general) a conservative lot and a lot of people have had bad experiences with Solaris (and, dare we say it, also with Windows and Linux) in the past. No matter how much software and UI improves, it takes ages for the community to accept this. A reputation that took years to build can be lost with one bad release - but won't be quickly reinstated with one good one. So there will always be people who resist change - and why not, if what they have now works for them. However, various people pointed us at Ubuntu and 'an OpenSolaris-based distro focused specifically on developers'. So perhaps things have improved for Solaris lately and, as I said in the original article, it's now worth another look."
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I haven't used Slackware Linux since the late 1990's, so I have no basis for comparison in desktop performance between Slackware and Solaris.
I can tell you Slackware 11.0 is faster than Solaris Nevada b54 on the same hardware. I have tried on a Pentium IV laptop and a Pentium III desktop with 512 MB memory. Both are faster than SUSE.
And which pieces of software are you having problems with from Blastwave?
I just did a full install. I didn't like that Blastwave comes with some servers that are also in Solaris proper.
This messed up the services so the system didn't boot up properly anymore.
At the moment I don't have enough knowledge to fix this kind of problems but I have all Sun documentation at hand. It could probably be fixed by entering some kind of rescue console.
Have you notified any of the maintainers to see if there is a solution to the problems you are having?
No I haven't. It was really more a kind of test to see if I could get Solaris to a state that it could somewhere in the future replace my current Slackware system.
I think the Blastwave system is kind of flawed in that it replaces system functionality with its own. I build Slackware packages that don't interfere with the base system and I expect Blastwave to do the same.
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The problem with Solaris 9 (back to Solaris 7) being slow on what I assume in your case to be systems with IDE disks is that UltraDMA mode is not enabled by default.
I haven't used Slackware Linux since the late 1990's, so I have no basis for comparison in desktop performance between Slackware and Solaris.
And which pieces of software are you having problems with from Blastwave? Have you notified any of the maintainers to see if there is a solution to the problems you are having?