I did not post anything to this blog in the last three weeks, part of that is due to my project in Portugal that kept me busy for almost two weeks and part of that is the end of summer blues : you know : days are shorter, temperatures drop and kids go back to school.
I recently installed OpenSolaris on my laptop, just to see it. The installation is still tricky as the installer is not open-sourced yet.
- First step is then to install the real Solaris, using Solaris Express to get the latest bits (Nevada build 20)
- Second step is to get the latest binaries from OpenSolaris.
- Third and final step is to upgrade Solaris Express to the latest OpenSolaris bits
When you follow the exact instructions provided by the documentation, everything runs smoothly, at least it does for me.
-bash-3.00$ cat /etc/release
Solaris 11 nv_20 X86
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 01 August 2005
-bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS dhcppc1 5.11 opensol-20050818 i86pc i386 i86pc
“What’s the point ?” asked my a collegue of mine. None ! Just wanna see the bits in motion.
Some of the things I enjoy :
- Solaris now uses the grub loader, like most Linux distro, making it easier to multiboot with other OSes
- We do integrate the Java Desktop System 3.1
Some things I regret :
- The driver for my video chipset is broken in this build. It will be fixed in the next build.