Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th May 2008 16:28 UTC
Last week, on my country's Liberation Day, Sun released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the much awaited first official fruit of Project Indiana. It delivers many of OpenSolaris' major features, such as DTrace, ZFS, containers, and more, in a Linux distribution-like package. The goal is to allow more people to experience Solaris. A few reviews have since hit the web.
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Member since:2005-12-13
Not to make fun of anything at all, but I had a similarly peculiar experience with FreeBSD PPC on my Apple Powerbook 12"...
Everything worked but the keyboard and touch pad...
This was due to these parts being connected via an old type of interface, named Apple Desktop Bus, with no drivers available as opposed to USB on all other Powerbooks...
With a USB keyboard and mouse attached, everything worked like a charm ...
Somewhat off topic, but these are the little things that serve to frustrate people, so I hope it'll be fixed in Solaris!
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2005-07-06
This was the first OpenSolaris release I could seriously consider. The previous (Nexenta, Belenix, etc) wouldn't even boot on any of my machines. This one booted into a very beautiful 1500x1050 Gnome desktop on my Compaq Evo N610C laptop. Even the wireless card with encryption worked beautifully - that was truly amazing. The only downer was no mouse - say what?? I have a pointing stick and a touchpad, take you pick. Neither worked. For fun, I tried turning off first the pointing stick, then the touchpad in the bios. I thought maybe it was confused by both being present. No luck. The only way I could proceed was an external mouse - I didn't even try since I do not want to go that route. Funny to me that all the "hard" things worked, like high-resolution video and PCMCIA wireless with WEP. But a little thing like the mouse didn't.
But it is definitely a vast improvement, and will probably be going on one of my desktop machines. For now, the N610C is a sweet OpenBSD 4.3 machine.