Moazam Rajas Sun hosted weblog garbage collection II

Sunday Jun 13, 2004

This is not much of a report since it seems everything installed without any problems. The only thing that does not work (I think), is the sound card.

After I installed the OS (Build61), I went over to Blastwave and used their pkg-get utility to download goodies such as blackbox, xfce, evolution, gcc, and others.

I do have some concerns, such as:

1.) The OS takes a long time to install..
2.) I typed 'netscape' at the command line and it looks like the default version is 4.78. Wow. I hope we ship a much newer version of Mozilla in the final release.
3.) GNOME crashes when you try to drag a folder or icon anywhere.

Other than that, everything went pretty smooth. Maybe if I get an open couple of days (impossible), I'll try configuring a Solaris 10 Beta desktop as my daily workstation. I still have questions about support for firewire HDs before I do that though.
To follow up on my previous post, I tried booting Solaris 10 x86 Build61 on my Dell Inspiron 4100 today. I did a simple dry-run without actually writing any data to the HD. I was able to confirm that X came up perfectly in 1600x1200x24bit resolution! My next step is to use Partition Magic 7 to reallocate my current HD so I can try a full install.