[geeks] Can't decide on an OS

[Phil Stracchino]

On 09/26/13 08:24, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> 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.

I have yet to experiment with any of the OpenIndiana/Illumos
distributions, and don't have a spare machine to do so at the moment.
But it's on my to-do list.  (However little time it seems I have to get
to that to-do list any more....)


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