The updated Xorg (version 7.2) is also in the current Solaris 10 Update 4 beta release and will be available in a Solaris 10 patch in the future.
May 15, 2007 at 10:57 PM
A few things that I love about OpenSolaris, but that Solaris 10 lacks:
* Xorg default support for Intel GMA 950 * SATA ATAPI device support * WPA (coming in build 64) * NWAM (network auto-magic) * DMFE is GLDv3
I'm not sure which of these will be coming to a Solaris 10 update in the future, but I can tell you I was immensely pleased with my upgrade from Solaris 10 update 4 (on a Intel mobo, with a Core 2 Duo cpu) to Solaris Nevada b62. As part of the deal, I switched to a SATA DVD drive; my system is now entirely SATA (no legacy PATA ribbon cables in the box!)
I'm sure there are lots of other useful features too, but at this point, I've put Nevada into "production" use at home, and I'm not looking back.
(And yes, I realize b62 isn't the latest, but I didn't have a copy of snv_63, and the machine I was "reinstalling" ... thanks to an unexpected mobo replacement, was my network server.)
posted by Garrett D'Amore at 11:18 PM on May 13, 2007
"Favorite things in OpenSolaris not in Solaris 10"
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The updated Xorg (version 7.2) is also in the current Solaris 10 Update 4 beta release and will be available in a Solaris 10 patch in the future.
May 15, 2007 at 10:57 PM