I needed to do some performance analysis on some applications for my MSc project. So I wanted to try the latest SunStudio12 with D-Trace. I downloaded the OpenSolaris 2008.05 image, burned on disk and tried to install on my Athlon64 3000+.
Unfortunately I couldn't even get to the first screen of the installation. OpenSolaris just failed on me giving some weired errors. After doing a lot of googling, I figured that OpenSolaris just couldn't work on my SATA drive!
I have installed XP, Vista, Fedora, and Ubuntu on this machine without any hickups and OpenSolaris was the first modern OS to fail on it!.
Next I tried to install it on my laptop but alas! it couldn't recognize logical partitions on an extended partition. So much for OpenSolaris.
I have to get this done somehow, so my next attempt will be to borrow an old IDE disk from a friend and try again. I'm sure there'll still be 101 problems before I actually see the first performance graph on SunStudio.
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Well Sun's decided to lay off approximately 2500 (7%) of it's work force due to it's open software/high-cost, high-power hardware business model not working out. Seems like this is one of the reasons why OpenSolaris hasn't taken off as some of the other open source distros have done.
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