On 25/09/2007, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 24/09/2007, MC <rac at eastlink.ca> wrote: > >> With no partition management I think the 10/07 release becomes pretty > >> squarely targeted at virtual machine users. > > > > I wouldn't say that. I'm using it right now (well, SXCE b73 > > technically) on bare hardware. I just happen to have a whole drive > > dedicated to it. > > > > Last check, it had partition management, just severe limitations... > > > > I cannot emphasize enough that this first delivery is a *preview* > release. It's driven almost entirely by a desired release date, not by > completeness of functionality, and thus makes some severe compromises on > the functionality side. Our "release criteria" are basically that the > CD boots, you can install what's on the CD to a disk, the boot from disk > will get you up to a GUI, and you can install some additional packages. > Anything beyond that is a bonus ;-)
Yep, I've mentioned that in several places to folks. It's great to see progress, but the price of seeing progress so soon is seeing it before it is finished, which is entirely reasonable. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
