Reference those who should be using Beta5, and looking at our thread list: a. the developers,
b. the packagers,
c. the testers
d. those who have no other choice because the beta has drivers/kernel versions that are not available in earlier versions.
e. the adventurous [dale14846]
f the patient [dale14846]
g for the impatient [conram] I think none of those are really “every day” use, … at least not per my definition of “every day use”, where for “every day use” configuration aspects are more user friendly, drivers are a bit more mature, more bugs have been closed, the documentation is present … etc …
I just got my ATI drivers working perfectly again. I have not had too many issues with the ATI drivers. As they mature it is often easier to get things such as Compiz Fusion to run very well. Although this is older 9600 Radeon hardware.
I have found after upgrading the latest package for the driver I got very bad corruption for Compiz. So I looked and checked my rpms. I still had old rpms installed for 10.3 ATI drivers that were never removed. Removed them as well as the new version. Ran the make mrproper;make cloneconfig; make modules_prepare; make clean steps and reinstalled. Sure enough once I sorted out my xorg.conf file rebuilding from scratch. I can now use amdcccle.
Dual boot has saved my butt more than once when I needed it to work. ATI has it’s issues but I agree it is worth the troubles.
That I find REAL surprising; one of my OpenSolaris testbeds is a P-III 1 GHz PC with 256 MB of DDR, old RIVA TNT graphics, and a moldy-oldie 40 GB (ex-Dell) WD IDE HDD. (Amazingly, it runs openSuSE 11 pretty darn well also.)
As I type this, I’m doing the Zypper Distribution Upgrade (from 11.1 beta 5 to 11.1 RC1) on my primary (for now) test box, my P4 2.6 Northwood-C/2 GB DDR400/Radeon X1650PRO AGP/3Com 3C905TX/dual DVD burners; single-layer Lite-ON and dual-layer Dynex (which has failed, and will be replaced with an LG), all mounted on an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe (the second partition of my Maxtor 200 GB SATA HD, shared with Vista Ultimate on the first partition)