On 26/09/2007, MC <rac at eastlink.ca> 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... > > > All I meant by that was: If it only installs onto existing solaris partitions > and whole disks, that cuts out basically everyone in the linux and windows > world... except for VM users, which is a pretty big and growing group. > > Existing solaris desktop users are a rounding error when compared to those > large groups, so I left them out of the generalization. > > IMHO all an Indiana proof of concept needs to do is A) install itself and B) > be able to update itself. If people can install Indiana October and then > follow development all the way to conclusion just by updating the same distro > every time with IPS, Mission Accomplished :)
While that's an honorable goal, I think the main deliverable coming in March of next year will meet that fully instead of the October one. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's been enough progress made to fully do what you suggest yet. -- 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
