[geeks] Can't decide on an OS

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Thu Sep 26 07:24:39 CDT 2013


On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Jonathan Groll wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:10:11 -0500, "Dr. Robert Pasken" <rpasken at eas.slu.edu> wrote:
>
>> If you have a pre-core5 intel processor than OpenIndiana/Solaris will
>> run quite nicely. The current MacBook pros (using i5 and i7
>> processors) use a broadcom network chip set, which is not yet
>> supported under OpenIndiana. With more older core2duo Macbook
>> OpenIndiana was quite nice thank you
>
> Is there much future to OpenIndiana? Are there still enough folks
> putting effort into it?

On SPARC with how determined Martin is, yes.  Otherwise...I'm not sure.

>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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