[ug-bosug] system upgrade ,needed help!

[Moinak Ghosh]

Raju Alluri wrote:
> Here are the typical times:
>
> [...]
> Here are some other response times during sparsely populated conditions:
>
> - Time from I enter my password to responsive enough GNOME desktop: 15 
> seconds

   This time should be reduced to half if you do the following:

   rm /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1099.br
   rm /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1001.swupnot

Regards,
Moinak.

> - OpenOffice: 10-15 seconds
> - Netbeans 6.0: 45 seconds
>
> Cost: Depends on who you buy it from. I bought it from an 
> off-the-street vendor by hand picking the components. He assembled the 
> box. Excluding the monitor, it would have been 16K. I bought used 
> memory and the cost is much lower. I am talking about Sep 2007. Now 
> the costs would be lower. I got one DVD Writer and another 
> CD-Writer/DVD-ROM combo. You may save about 1K there if you are going 
> for just the DVD writer.
>
> Overall, I took a risk by not going for a branded system and the cost 
> is about 30% lower, as per the rates of that time. Based on the system 
> performance so far, that is a good decision.
>
> Regards,
> - Raju
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Manish Chakravarty 
> <manishchaks at gmail.com <mailto:manishchaks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Raju,
>
>     how fast is this system? Could you give me an approximate boot
>     time to CDE/GDM login screen?
>     It would be helpful for me as I am looking out for a system for
>     myself.
>     Also, how much did you spend on this machine?
>
>     Thanks
>     Manish
>
>     On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Raju Alluri <spurthi at gmail.com
>     <mailto:spurthi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Sham,
>         Welcome to the club! :-).
>
>         I have been using AMD X2 4400+ with nVidia/GeForce 6150
>         chipset. Running SXDE (b72) for the
>         last 6 months and it is running simply fine.
>
>         Here is my configuration bought in September:
>             http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/?p=329
>
>         In fact, my desktop is a real workhorse and runs at an amazing
>         speed with 2GB RAM when running Solaris.
>
>         Regards,
>         - Raju
>
>
>         On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Anil Gulecha
>         <anil.verve at gmail.com <mailto:anil.verve at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             On 3/24/08, Ashwin Bhat <ashwinbhatks at gmail.com
>             <mailto:ashwinbhatks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>             > AFAIK AMD 64 support for Belenix is still in progress.
>             Intel Core 2 Duo
>             > would be a better choice.
>             >
>
>             Nope.. belenix runs great on 64-bit processors. Intels
>             core2Duo
>             implements AMD64 specs.. so anything that runs on core2duo
>             will run on
>             AMD, AFAIK.
>
>             Anil
>
>             PS : You might be talking about LiveCD mode that is 32bit.
>             I dont
>             think there are plans to change this. The opensolaris
>             kernel is
>             intelligent and the same packages are installed on both
>             32-bit and
>             64-bit systems. Upon bootup, opensolaris recognizes the
>             type of
>             processor and runs in that mode :) So any distro based on
>             opensolaris
>             will behave this way, including Belenix, indiana, etc.
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