Impressive Install
First look: OpenSolaris 2008.05 a work in progress: "The most impressive aspect of OpenSolaris is the installation
experience, which is painless, intuitive, and easily on par with Ubuntu
and Fedora." -- Ryan Paul, Ars Technica
I agree. And this is a big deal for regular people like me (non-engineering types, I mean). When I started on the OpenSolaris project four years ago, I could not install the pre-Solaris 10 builds, and I struggled with subsequent versions of Solaris Express. I always had to get help. Solaris was always for pretty high end people, but that's all changed now. Actually, the install has been pretty easy for about a year now, but with OpenSolaris 2008.05 so many other things just work. Beautiful.
I agree. And this is a big deal for regular people like me (non-engineering types, I mean). When I started on the OpenSolaris project four years ago, I could not install the pre-Solaris 10 builds, and I struggled with subsequent versions of Solaris Express. I always had to get help. Solaris was always for pretty high end people, but that's all changed now. Actually, the install has been pretty easy for about a year now, but with OpenSolaris 2008.05 so many other things just work. Beautiful.
It has come a long way since last fall. It still doesn't realize it is on my second disk being booted via BIOS boot menu. One grub edit and all is well. Now on to getting the apps I need running (or finding alternates) like truecrypt, skype and a few others.
Other than that you have the best kernel on the planet!
Posted by tim on May 14, 2008 at 11:50 PM JST #
opensolaris 2008.05 really a great piece of work !! Just two points:
1.-Why not to add Gparted or QTparted to the liveCD/liveUSB.
and 2.- Although Sun's Gnome guys have done a compelling desktop, I am eager to see KDE on opensolaris. Kudos to the KDE4-Solaris porting team, and to the KDE-Indiana (Belenix) distro team for their work in the solaris/kde integration.
Posted by Raul on May 14, 2008 at 11:56 PM JST #
But come on, SXCE is a peace of cake to install as long as the HW is supported. It's actually much harder with OpenSolaris 2008.05 as you don't know what happens or what the layout will look like. But sure, it looks nice so let's hope for an advanced checkbox for us that likes to have control.
Posted by Thommy M. on May 17, 2008 at 11:18 PM JST #