[geeks] FYI - OpenSolaris 2008.05 released

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 6, 2008, at 11:08 , Michael Parson wrote:

> On May 6, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> Mark wrote:
>>> I'd have thunk they'd use the Sun NFS daemon. seeing as Sun have a  
>>> defined standard for NFS compatibility. I agree, the Linux version  
>>> of NFSd is a complete pile of horse manure. I tend to use NetBSD  
>>> or OS X for serving off NFS, because they are easier to handle (in  
>>> OS X's case you do need Leopard though).
>>> I'd have thunk also if they are going down the Linux-like route it  
>>> ought to be semi-straight-forward to compile KDE for OpenSolaris  
>>> maybe? Or XFCE, or whatever you fancy? I dunno, I guess the  
>>> community support is a touch limited atm.
>>
>> Well, actually, being as it's to be a server, I'll be getting to it  
>> via ssh anyway.  I just didn't want to burn cycles pointlessly  
>> running a Gnome that I'm never even going to log into.
>
> Then don't start dtlogin.

You still have all that cruft on the system.

Also, from my testing last night, you can't install without Gnome and  
dtlogin/gdm.

I tried console login and it gave me a login prompt, and after login  
as "jack", I was never able to figure out how to start a non-graphical  
install.

I believe that's what at least one poster wanted to do.

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com