[geeks] FYI - OpenSolaris 2008.05 released

[Michael Parson]

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.

> Though I suppose in that situation there shouldn't be much more than  
> gdm running....

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org