[indiana-discuss] Intel Atom-Based (EeePC-Like) Mini Notebooks

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

Hi Wayne,

I do not agree with you that "OpenSolaris, at its current stage, has no 
chance of being widely accepted in China (or I should say, the 
Chinese-speaking world)". Actually the adption of OpenSolaris in China 
is far better than what you think. A lot of universities are teach 
OpenSolaris in their classes, have computer labs with OpenSolaris 
installed. In China the world famous ACM Collegiate Code Competition 
runs on OpenSolaris starting from 2006 -- this can't be found in any 
other part of the world.

To be fair, Sin-Yaw Wang is one of the driving force behind these 
achievements. Indeed he has not yet install OpenSolaris 2008.05 onto his 
EeePC, simply because this is a newly purchased one and he want to play 
with it with its original of operating system for a while (just like a 
child gets a new toy). We all need to learn from others, don't we? I do 
believe that he is considering this idea seriously, and will actually do 
it some time later.

Best regards,

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W. Wayne Liauh 写道:
>> Sin-Yaw is the Sun exec in charge of Sun's ERI
>> (Engineering and Research Institute) in Beijing. With
>> over 500 employees, this is one of Sun's principal
>> assets in developing device drivers for Solaris,
>> among many other things.  If anyone can make things
>> happen, this is the person.  Or so we hope.  :-)
>>     
>
>
> The following is a comment I posted to the second installment of "Sin-Yaw's Adventure with the Asus EeePC":
>
> ***** (comment begins)
>
> Edward O'Callaghan: "Just install OpenSolaris over it."
>
> Absolutely agreed. (& you should consult with Sun's Indiana Discuss Forum instead of those hearsay-infested swap meets.)
>
> But seriously, your version of the Asus EeePC comes with a combo of two different "grades" of SSDs. As per what your boss Java-san blogged today, nothing handles a hybrid of storage devices (EeePC 900 fits into this category) better than ZFS/OpenSolaris.
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/not_a_flash_in_the
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> Once you have installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 and OpenOpen (vis the IPS, which, by the way, is great, next only to the sliced bread), you will find out almost immediately why OpenSolaris, at its current stage, has no chance of being widely accepted in China (or I should say, the Chinese-speaking world)--AND ONLY IN CHINA. All because of a very trivial problem. How pathetic!
>
> Posted by W. Wayne Liauh on June 12, 2008 at 03:15 AM CST #
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> *****  (comment ends)
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> http://blogs.sun.com/syw/entry/eee_pc_chronicles_episode_2
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> Looks like we should be making some progress (with regard to the problem I mentioned therein and driver issues; hopefully the STR issue will also be helped)!  Fingers crossed.
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