[indiana-discuss] Losing my hope...

[Jacob Israel]

Since the day Solaris was announced to be available as FOSS, my curiosity
and eagerness sparked an everlasting flame that until now is burning.

I had to download the multi-giga byte installer of Solaris Express whatever
edition. But after I downloaded the very big installer for about 36 hours,
it just gave me a desperate feeling. I almost wanted to cry, literally,
because I wasn't able to install it on my DELL laptop. There was no free
Virtual Box then. So, I left using Ubuntu because it was only my choice then
because Windoze has never been an option.

At this time of writing, I have owned three laptops, DELL, HP Pavillion, and
a second hand Sony Vaio. I had an EEEPC too, by the way. But I can't feel
happy with those laptops if I can't install my beloved Solaris on them. All
of those laptops have some hardware components without Solaris drivers (even
from a third-party).

Then I bought a PC. It's an ACER Aspire. In my country, the Philippines,
laptop and PC retailers doesn't allow me to try the "Solaris Device
Detection Tool" or its web-startable version. But I still bought this Aspire
PC hoping that this box as a whole is compatible with OpenSolaris/Indiana
since this box is almost build out of AMD/nVidia products, and since I know
that Sun and nVidia has a good partnership.

But the nVidia nForce NIC doesn't have a Solaris driver. I almost cry again,
literally. Aspire is costly and now what?

I can still use Solaris, thanks to Virtual Box and the new CD-sized
OpenSolaris binary distribution (Indiana?). But when can I be able to run
Solaris on a real box? When? Tell me, when? I'm loosing my hope. I abandoned
the love at first sight that I developed for Ubuntu since when I met Open
Solaris. But now, maybe I should sell all my laptops and buy the expensive
Macbook Pro. At least, OS X is more Solaris like than Vista and Linux is.

The flame is now loosing some oxygen and now it's fading.

Just sharing my experience. Thanks for reading.

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