The Master Chief

Okay, trying to install Solaris onto my sig, and i keep getting a series of warnings.

It just cycles through them. I'll take a pic of it later on. At work now.

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bowman

2009.06, SXCE or Solaris 10?

I suggest joining #opensolaris on freenode irc, they might be helpful too.

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The Master Chief

The newest version of open solaris, 2009.06.

I am a member already, I think it has something to do with my motherboard...

I think it had very similar results with the older version too. I dont have another computer to try on.


My dad has an older version of Solaris, the real one. I may just install that on it.

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chemicalfan

I've played with OpenSolaris, and it's nice, but too bloaty for me. Granted, playing consists of installing some apps, doing some tweaking/config, bit of browsing and that, but it seems sluggish compared to Linux (well, not compared to Fedora)

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bowman

That's because it's made for throughput, not being a snappy desktop. It's a server operating system. Only reason they bother with a desktop is because some people still use Sun workstations and because they want to entice developers to their platform.

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I'm confused as to how it can perform badly, but well at the same time? Are you saying that the desktop is poor (it's GNOME, so Ubuntu/Mint handle it ok), but it's web/database server programs are really quick? I can't get my head round that.

If it was truly a server OS, then why stick Gnome on as the DE? Surely something like a custom Openbox, or even CLI would be the way forward?

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gonX

Throughput =/= latency. For example, the stock settings for the kernel in Arch is to have a small a latency as possible. If you were to compile it with server settings (high latency, as few ticks as possible), you'd notice how horribly bloated it feels, although you'd probably notice a few more PPD if you're doing stuff like folding.

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The Master Chief

It installed fine on my dads rig.. WTH!

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Installed fine on my NAS project parts as well, but not on my DFI Lanparty NF4 board which is a socket 939 board. It would reboot randomly, or just hang at the gnome loading screen. It might be your motherboard being such a weirdpoke opensolaris doesn't support it.

Have you looked in the hcl and on the discussion lists?

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/
http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/

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