Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 19th Aug 2008 14:44 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view? Is it merely a passable curiosity right now, or is it truly worth installing? Linux Format takes OpenSolaris for a test drive, examining the similarities and differences to a typical Linux distro.
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Member since:2008-04-30
FUD
you want KDE in opensolaris?.. go get belenix www.belenix.org
It's not hard at all to install any software, you just need a little common sense... it's going to be Synaptic-easy when IPS is ready, don't worry.
60% degradation?.. may I inquire what are your sources for these numbers?.. hardware, tests and everything else in the package...
If you don't like it, that's ok, but don't go around spreading false information
Member since:
2008-06-16
Solaris is bad. Period. Why bother creating another useless piece of OS, claiming to be this and that ? Solaris lacks most of the good features that other OSes have, Linux and *BSD family, it's hard to find and install needed software, shall you need something additionally installed, you're probably gonna miss some development libraries. Using it for Desktop / Workstation ? No, thanks, I've tried that, there's no KDE
Even with GNOME, it will still crash when just changing the hostname, LOL. It's relatively slow compared to OpenSuSE 11.0 and KDE 3.5.9 for example.
Server applications ? Again, no thanks, again. Simple benchmarks on the same reveal ~ 60% degradation over Linux and BSD.
In short, I wouldn't trust this OS for anything.
P.S. Reading your comments, it seems that ZFS is the only good thing, soon I believe it will be ported for other OSes.
Edited 2008-08-22 08:24 UTC