Just in case this helps someone Googling around – if you are trying to install Solaris 10/08 on VirtualBox and find its taking forever and throwing Java errors – increase the RAM on the virtual machine to around a gig. Using the default 512Mb I was having all sorts of problems.
I highly recommend giving Solaris a whirl. Especially if your interested in storage – ZFS is a rather good filesystem and well worth playing with. Recent developments are making it a viable desktop solution – hopefully there will be more interesting features in the future to help it stick out from the crowd.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/
Google have released a new browser plugin that lets users enter virtual 3D rooms. As hard as I resist I can’t help but give it a try. Join me below – hopefully the embedded widget works:
“Desktop search has a predominate roll in a modern operating system. As storage space and file counts have increased, there has become a need to quickly pluck out files from thousands of others. This is expressed in recent OS releases, Apple offers Spotlight, Linux has Beagle and Microsoft has finally cottoned on placing search boxes everywhere in Vista. We want our information and we want it quickly. This, is where the Deskbar Applet comes in.”
Read the rest of the review at Pan Linux.
