[advocacy-discuss] 2 Reviews

[Alan McClellan]

Phillip, I've forwarded release notes request to the  responsible 
writer.  Thanks for the input.

-alan

Alan McClellan
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Philip Torchinsky wrote:
> Both reviews are too small; I installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 yesterday 
> and upgraded it to OpenSolaris 2008.11 with pkg image-update and had 
> more impressions :)
>
> I found the following:
>
> 1. Important notice about grub update for those who upgrade from b_86 to 
> b_93 is not easy to locate (it was NOT in release notes - please, add it 
> there those who can)
> (see 
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=66391&tstart=0&start=0). 
> I had bad hour trying to guess why new boot environment reboots 
> constantly instead of normal boot -because of that issue with GRUB.
>
> 2. Update took 1 hour 20 minutes for me because pkg image-update 
> downloaded 1,5 G of data. It looked odd to me - download 1,5G to update 
> a system freshly installed with 640M CD.
>
> 3. Russian translation of the installer is nearly acceptable, but 
> sometimes inaccurate badly (translators were in a hurry, and it's 
> noticeable).
>
> On the other hand, I enjoyed my Acer Ferrari 5000 works well out of the 
> box right after correct update to OpenSolaris 2008.11: everything 
> necessary was there: Firefox, Thunderbird, all drivers (including 
> sound), software for playing and grabbing music, videodriver for ATI 
> X1600, Pidgin, Evince... I actually get the system ready to work in two 
> hours (counting installation + update time), and it's perfect! 
> OpenOffice 2.4 takes just 400 M to download, and works very well.
>
> Installation process was very comfortable to me; no stupid errors with 
> rewriting partition table were made; I had dual-boot configuration, and 
> still have it without any problem. I backed up my user files, just 
> tar'ing home directory, and restored it just untar'ing them into new 
> directory in the new system (I had Solaris Express before). Bookmarks, 
> mail and browser configurations remained the same, and I like new system 
> performance - no delays were noticed in relations to file system.
>
> Philip
>
>
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>   
>> Found 2 reviews and posted them to http://opensolaris.org/os/news/. Are 
>> they accurate based on your experience? I have not upgraded to 93 yet.
>>
>> An Early Look At OpenSolaris 2008.11 | 07/15/2008
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=opensolaris_200811_early&num=1
>>
>> Solaris Express Community Edition Build 93 | 07/12/2008
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sun_sxce_b93&num=1
>>
>> Jim
>>
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