I had really high hopes for Sun’s opensolaris. Everything was good until I needed to get an Internet connection.

While I was easily connected to my local network, which is interesting at best as I have a hacked a bridge between two wireless routers, I was initially unable to get an external Internet connection. After 4 hours of work, success! But today when I booted up the opensolaris box my connectivity was gone. Better yet opensolaris had changed my settings, AGAIN! For the record, I have a Linux CentOS machine configured the same way and it is working fine.

Now I’m not the only one who has experienced this issue. Just take a quick search on the Net and you will find plenty. Network connectivity seems to be the number one issue. What I can’t figure out is how these write-ups that tell a black story of not being able to connect to the Internet can, in the next paragraph, talk about opensolaris package manager. To fully try/utilize this new utility you have to have an Internet connection.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the port of Solaris so far. There are a lot of cool features to play with. But for now, I’m powering off my opensolaris box until the next release or until my contacts at Sun come through and give me a helping hand.