On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, James Cornell wrote: > Then we need to reevaluate what the purpose of Solaris is, because there's > still no server variant of OpenSolaris, there's just too much fat on it
OpenSolaris is simply Solaris open-sourced for all the world to see and play with. Plain and simple. Similar to Linux, there can be many variations on packaging which address different needs. Solaris itself has traditionally been an "all in one" package without nickle-and-diming the customer for features, or charging 10X more for a "server" version as other OSs do. This means that the 512-core server gets the same OS install as a single-CPU laptop. What happens to work for a single-CPU laptop can not be allowed to compromise the 512-core server install. Everything must be considered. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
