Archived thread 1009606 from Other OS Talk. Markdown source: Other_OS_Talk/thread_1009606_OpenSolaris_now_on_Toshiba_laptops.md
Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops.
The laptops will be available in the US from early 2009 and will come with the latest version of OpenSolaris: 2008.11. "Toshiba and Sun are announcing that we're going to pre-configure and optimise OpenSolaris for certain Toshiba models," said Jim McHugh, Sun's vice president of datacentre software, in a promotional video. Whoa! Where did this come from?!
I'm guessing Sun wanted laptops for it's employees and worked out a deal with Toshiba to sell the same models they spec'd out and optimized OpenSolaris for.
This looks interesting. The more UNIX/Linux adoption, the better. Though, their forums need some more mods/community managers to actually talk to/help people.
Changturkey said: This looks interesting. The more UNIX/Linux adoption, the better. Though, their forums need some more mods/community managers to actually talk to/help people.
Their mailing lists are excellent. I got some help with my wireless adapter from the guy who actually ported the driver.
cardinals_fan said: Their mailing lists are excellent. I got some help with my wireless adapter from the guy who actually ported the driver.
Hmm..I am gonna give this a run, this is the first thing since Ubuntu that has really interested me. Looks like this might be going places, just needs that community. Also, it looks like they may be bringing KDE to the next release.
Well, this is most certainly interesting! Now Sun just needs to get it's repos filled up with good software options for casual users.
cardinals_fan, nice find! Sun had mentioned in a press release a while back that they wanted to see their products out there. There has been a lot of hard work put in to OpenSolaris and I am glad to see their efforts rewarded. For only two releases OpenSolaris has made remarkable progress.
i only wish i can one of those from the stores here in Denmark. good news anyway.
Mr. Psychopath said: Well, this is most certainly interesting!
Now Sun just needs to get it's repos filled up with good software options for casual users.
They have contrib repos now.
OpenSolaris getting preinstalled on laptops this early in the game :o.
Now this shows they are doing something right.
I guess I can tri boot with OpenSolaris until PClinuxOs2009 comes out.
Hopefully they'll also lower prices since they don't have to use windows. ;)
If you are looking for more applications... get Nexenta.
fistfullofroses said: If you are looking for more applications... get Nexenta.
Tried it, but didn't get very far due to there being no documentation on how to go online using ethernet. :(
fistfullofroses said:
ifconfig eth0 up
I tried that, didn't work with QEMU at the time. :(
Qemu doesn't always work well with networking, and I am unsure as to whether or not Nexenta has a qemu network driver. I did a native install when I tried Nexenta.
Wow I wasn't expecting that. :shock: I applaud OpenSolaris and Toshiba =D>
I've tried OpenSolaris before and it was pretty good. But I had to install it on a VM since it didn't want to install on my physical computer. I'll keep my eye on these Toshiba systems.
Awesome isn't it? For so long now, the public has been hearing little snippets about GNU/Linux and nothing about any other *nix OS. Finally, Sun is deciding to branch out, and get their operating system noticed. This could seriously further *nix in the common public. What the industry needs right now is a new alternative to Windows. I am not saying that because I have any problem with Microsoft. I think that Microsoft has done a lot for the computer industry over the past 20 years. Right now though (at least in the USA), economic troubles are stifling the IT industry just like every other industry. A cheaper software suite, while it wouldn't fix any existing economic problem, it could help lessen the financial costs, and give a little extra life to struggling companies and home PC users.
smartboyathome said: I tried that, didn't work with QEMU at the time. :(
i often use belenix on a usb stick to use the internet. it finds it self like linux does. i have it on a 1 gigabyte usb stick i installed from the livecd using the command pfexec usbdump and it works like a live cd would do. i also had it running from usb stick on my asus Eeepc but t does not find the wireless. if you have a spare usb stick you could try that and see if it works.
Its a good thing and a bad thing here, as Solaris doesnt have as many packages and stuff linux has...
SunnyRabbiera said: Its a good thing and a bad thing here, as Solaris doesnt have as many packages and stuff linux has...
Thats not true since they got gcc precompiled on their now (in 2008.05, it wasn't packaged, so it was a nightmare to try to set it up). Because of this, potentially any program that releases its source could be compiled on there.
Until the Android SDK and emulator get officially ported to Solaris, I'm going to have to stick with Linux.
At least the KDE-Solaris team is doing a superb job, so that takes away some of the sting of "lack of apps".
there really are a lot of apps for OpenSolaris. Compile 'em from scratch and do your own dep res, and you can have nearly an app you want. Most programs for an UNIX-like system can be installed on any other UNIX-like system... you just have to compile them on the target system.
I decided "what the hey" and downloaded the OpenSolaris 2008.11. Definitely looks interesting so far.
Good info, to look for help in the mailing lists instead of the forums!
I was using Fedora for the computer club demo OS (I have 2 hard drives for my laptop; 1 for me and 1 for the club) and I'm thinking of installing OpenSolaris over Fedora for a while.