OpenSolaris on Mac Mini

First of all, don’t. Just don’t. But if you must, here’s the driver to get the ethernet port to work on a Mac Mini under OpenSolaris. You’re welcome.

This entry was written by Paul, posted on June 13, 2008 at 11:04 am, filed under Uncategorized and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Molinier Etienne
    Posted November 7, 2009 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

    I’m planing to build myself a little HomeServer on Solaris with ZFS… You realy don’t advise me to use solaris on a Mac Mini ? I should choose another computer ?
    Please mail me back…

  2. Paul
    Posted November 7, 2009 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    At the time I wrote this there was a massive flaw with updating OpenSolaris, which meant it was very easy to kill your system hard enough to require a reinstall. As far as I know that’s now fixed, so there are only two reasons not to do it now:

    1. I don’t like (Open)Solaris – but if you’re comfortable with it, then it’s a good choice for you.
    2. Macs already come with a pretty good OS – it might not be quite as fast as Solaris, but it’s preobably good enough for a home server.

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