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HuBaghdadi
April 8th, 2008, 02:17 PM
Hi.
Have you ever tried Solaris 10 on a laptop? what do you think of this idea?
I'm not sure but I don't think that Solaris has an optimized power policy for laptops (it is an OS for workstation and servers after all).
Thanks.

metalf8801
April 8th, 2008, 03:28 PM
Sun does have picture of people using Solaris on laptops on there website.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/index.jsp

There are distribution based on Solaris that are live you might want to try out these 2 should run on a live cd according to distrowatch.com

belenix (http://distrowatch.com/belenix)
Indiana (http://distrowatch.com/indiana)

tact
April 8th, 2008, 03:34 PM
Yer I have run a few varieties of solaris 10 on my laptop (Dell D410) and its fine but feels like you are wearing a straitjacket after ubuntu. :)

I had run Solaris 10, and some distributions based on it like opensolaris, nexenta etc. Nexenta is interesting because it looks all the world like ubuntu (same gnome, same colours etc) but with a solaris kernel instead of a linux kernel.

Still I prefer ubuntu.

HuBaghdadi
April 9th, 2008, 10:49 AM
Why did you find running Solaris is like wearing a straitjacket?