Comments on: OpenSolaris 2008.05 (Hubba Bubba)

By: Dave Armstrong

Dave Armstrong — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:50:10 +0000

Great job with OpenSolaris. I’m running it on Dell 745 now.

A couple of suggestions that would make it better (IMHO):

1. Include CUPS support. I would love for this OS to replace SuSE and Ubuntu on our 40 or so Linux boxes but I need CUPS support so that I can make the change gradually.

2. The network didn’t work for my main development machine. I understand that might have something to do with NWAN and that disabling that and setting up the network manually might work. The network works out of the box for other OS’s on that machine, so I’m sure O/S will support it in coming releases.

I love the crispness and usability of O/S and java support. Great job.

By: mark umbel

mark umbel — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:30:24 +0000

this is a great distro on live cd. it found everything on my machine. however, after six tries - complete with fixmbr and clean drive, it still will not set grub on a two drive dell. reinstalled buntu 8 with no problem. i hope this problem can be solved because i think this may be the one to stop my distro-hopping.

By: David Comay

David Comay — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:41:14 +0000

@Laxman, we would have loved to have included OpenOffice on the CD but there wasn’t enough space on it. Perhaps in the future we’ll provide something like a LiveDVD that includes it.

By: Laxman

Laxman — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:42:54 +0000

Whose brilliant idea was it to not include OpenOffice.org in the OpenSolaris distro? I know you can get it via IPS but if there are people who actually need to get Free CDs from Sun, they most probably can’t download OpenOffice either.

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:13:49 +0000

hi,
I have download and installed Opensolaris 05/08,
Do you known a mplayer pkg for this OS?

Thanks.

By: Russ Delo

Russ Delo — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:29:42 +0000

Great job, I have been watching this for a long time! And it was worth the wait.

Thank you from a none programmer, all the hard work is appreciated.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:27:18 +0000

Congrats to you and the team Glynn! Look forward to playing with the live CD.

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By: John McHugh

John McHugh — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:53:40 +0000

Website looks slick

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:17:33 +0000

OpenSolaris 2008.05 ya disponible

Glynn Foster nos cuenta que ya está disponible la primera versión oficial de OpenSolaris, y la primera distribución con binarios (antes era solo código fuente, o distribuciones de comunidad ajenas a SUN). Entre otras cosas tenemos un nuevo gestor d…