Nishchaya Bahuguna wrote: > Couldn't have agreed more with Shiv. I have seen so many users, who are > just reluctant to try out open solaris because of this reason. From an > engineer's point of view, it does makes sense for not to have any > redundant bits on your system. But, if it is the end user and we are > actually interested in growing the community, then the first impression > about any distro does makes an impact on the popularity. > > I have spoken to lot many students and users and they are just too happy > to use Linux, Ubuntu, whatever. We just can't convince them to switch > over unless it is served to them on a platter.
Most of the popular GNU/Linux distributions have this same limitation. That is, a significant number of packages are available only from online repositories. Admittedly, they have an on-disk format so you can download a bunch of select packages. But remember, you can effectively do the same thing with OpenSolaris using the distribution constructor. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
