Living With Opensolaris

What I found

So I thought I would give opensolaris a try out. If you have not heard of this before, it is a UNIX based operating system developed by SUN. So the first day I had it, it was all new and I didn’t really know what I was doing. It did take a day or two to get used to it, and after that I loved it. It had so many features built into it that just made it a really nice OS to be using. Some very polished applications such as TimeSlider came in handy a lot. It has the abilty to use some amazing desktop effects, and uses the popular GNOME desktop. When Opensolaris is first installed, everything is just, well, there. Everything runs smooth and fast, it just works.

However, after using this for a week, I also found that there were a lot of things I didn’t like about it. For me, music is very important, as I listen to it a lot, whether I am doing work, or just checking my Facebook. This may or may not have been to do with my hardware, but the sound quality was extreamly bad, and I was not able to listen to any music, online or offline. Even when I got a notification on Pidgen messenger, it would sound really bad. This pushed me away from using Opensolaris a lot, as music is a very big part of me. There were also a couple of bugs where if I tried to save a file in a place of my choice, the whole system would crash, and I would have to take the battery out of my laptop just to restart it. The internet connection would keep going off and coming back on. It just wasn’t working out for me.

You may not have the same problems as I did, it may just be the machine I was running it on. If you want to see what this OS can really do, I would say you should get a Live Disc, and try it out. I installed it on to my hard drive, then got rid of it a week later. I hope you enjoy using Opensolaris.