9:28 PM - Solaris: Sun still doesn't get it
Well i started playing with solaris 10. It brought back some fond memories and some painful ones. First, no compiler present STILL. They haevn't learned. Second, no way to see the hardware detected in the gui. Thats lame.. especially after using java desktop system 1 (linux). This doesn't feel like an upgrade from that. The gui is nice and the builtin stuff works well. It feels sluggish but i thin k thats the lack of x11 video acceleration for my video card. (it works in 2d but not out of the box) They are using xorg actually. Obtaining patches is a bitch.
I found myself on sunfreeware.com (again). At that point, and trying to figure out system v commands i am now installing freebsd on my system. I have to use the legacy ps command in solaris because i HATE system v ps.. it sucks ass. ps -ax or ps -auxww is awesome!
I guess i'm just a bsd user at heart. I'll leave solaris up though. It might be handy for testing and i may still do java development with it. It does include jdk 1.5 (tiger)
I was disappointed my audigy was not detected. Solaris doesn't feel prime time yet. (not on the desktop x86) I had hoped it would be innovative.. same old crap. On the up side, my dual xeons were detected perfectly!
shit.. i fucked up and installed all packages in beastie... that means old xorg to remove :(
i was to lazy to find 5.4 so i'm using 5.3 release disks.