Wednesday, January 14, 2009

20090113 OpenSolaris 2008.11

STILL doesn't support Acer Aspire One.

1) An external USB DVD drive is "recognised" by /sbin/listusb, not /sbin/listcd, and is attempted to be mounted as UFS, not HSFS. Why these two programs can't be combined is anyone's guess

2) X11 doesn't work (at least not on nv86 which OS2008.11 is based on). I believe nv103 may fix the Intel driver for X11, but I'll have to wait until 2008.05.

3) In the meantime, Ubuntu 8.0.x has done a stellar job - everything JUST WORKS.