"If you're an OpenSolaris x86 user and are using a NVIDIA graphics card with NVIDIA's binary Solaris drivers, you can now enjoy Compiz on your desktop. Erwann Chenede has produced packages of Compiz 0.5.0 for OpenSolaris x86. In fact, to ease the process he has even written an OpenSolaris install script for Compiz. More information (download links) is available from Erwann's Sun Blog."
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Member since:2006-01-06
Yes, I agree. I think that there should be more options to choose from. Linux has got flexibility and good hardware support. Solaris has got great company behind it. Maybe GNU/Solaris would be a solution? Solaris on top of Debian architecture, something like guys from opensolaris.org do, but directly from Sun. Dpkg, rpm or portage, or pkgsrc, or anything better than it is now. apt-get install solaris-kernel-XXX ;D
Member since:2006-02-06
I don't know if this is what you were talking about but, if you don't know yet, you might want to take a look at Nexenta OS.
It is kind of an unofficial "Debian GNU/OpenSolaris"
I haven't got the time to test and it probably wouldn't run on my hardware, but I would like to give it a try.
Would be a great scenario... OpenSolaris, Gnu userland (with some nice tools from solaris, of course) and a Debian-like release schedule (a bit faster, perhaps) with long life releases for which the developers could aim.
It would be nice to have a selection of software built for, say, Nexenta XYZ, being distributed by their own developers, good support for third party developers and all that stuff that appeal to some but most Linux development ignores.
Member since:2006-05-09
pkgsrc runs very well on Solaris; it has some little problems yet, but with some people of the community working on it, it could be a great package management infrastructure for Solaris.
As long as I know, pkgsrc is the main package management system on Belenix, an OpenSolaris distro.
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2006-02-06
I'm a linux guy too, but I really would like to see a unix variant become desktop ready and still have the tracks set by a single corporation. Not saying it would be better than linux, but it would be a good thing nonetheless.
And I don't mean Mac OS X, as those are too expensive here in Brazil.
Unfortunately, from what I heard and read, OpenSolaris still has a long long way to go. Let's see how it ends.
I just would love if Sun could come up with a great system with a nice standard UI and solid release based version of libraries, so developers would have a still target if they wanted to develop for an Open Unix Variant in Desktop.