OpenSolaris: What I’ve got…
May 26th, 2008 by tripledes
After being testing OpenSolaris in a virtual machine I decided to install it on my laptop. I have to admit it’s really easy to install even getting the wifi card working was a piece of cake…30s work!
The system seems fast, stable and usable…but for my laptop I found a couple of problems:
- SpeedStep is not supported for Pentium-m, so my CPU is always @1730MHz and hot, really hot.
- My sound card seems supported but I haven’t got any sound from it yet, I have seen in OpenSolaris forums I should install OSS for Solaris x86.
- I’m still trying to figure out how to play mp3 files without having to mess up my system, I was hoping adding some repositories would help on this one but no luck for me yet…
For now I haven’t got too much time for playing with it, but seems promising…I’ve been even thinking about migrate my current Gentoo server to OpenSolaris but I will test it before doing it I don’t wanna spend much time for nothing…;)
