On 23/03/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Jeff Cai wrote: > > Do we have already planed to replace the old packaging system ? and who > > is working on that in Sun? > > The Install team has already been working on that for quite a while. > > My biggest fear of hiring the "Debian guy" is that a year from now we'll > hear "See the new installer, new packaging, improved desktop? See what > a difference the Debian guy made" - when it's all work already in progress.
A well-founded one at that. I hear people criticise Sun quite often for apparently "doing nothing" to improve "x86 hardware support for wifi, laptops, non-Sun hardware, etc.", for "having such an outdated desktop environment," and for doing nothing to "improve their installer." Most outsiders have no clue how much is actually going on to improve Solaris in these areas and has been for at least the past few years in some cases. I personally have seen huge strides even since the GA release of Solaris 10... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
