Stephen Lau wrote: > Doug Scott wrote: >> John Sonnenschein wrote: >>> On 10-Jul-07, at 9:17 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Tim Bray wrote: >>>>> Remember, every time you take something out that people are used to >>>>> and seemed to work, you increase the Solaris barrier to entry... >>>> Absolutely, positively. >>>> >>>> After all, that, in a nutshell, is what Indiana and its bretheren such >>>> as ARC case 2007/047 and its offspring are all about, isn't it? >>> Well, why not just ship the GNU userspace on the Linux kernel then? >>> it's what people are used to & seems to work... why bother with this >>> "Solaris" business at all? >>> >>> Which is ultimately the real question... If we're going to replace >>> everything that makes Solaris great with stuff that Linux uses just >>> because it's more familiar, why not just use Linux? >> Why upgrade Solaris? It is perfect now isn't it? Very easy to use. >> Your mum could get the DVD and have no problems installing it on the >> toaster. >> Seriously. I think you are probably missing that Indiana is not about >> deleting Solaris. It is just making it more familiar for a current >> Linux user to use, while keeping it Solaris. You can have your cake >> and eat it too. > > I think John's point was more that why go to all the hassle of baking > our own cake if all we're trying to do is make the exact same cake > that we can buy at the local grocery store for (possibly) cheaper, and > quicker.
In that case just throw Solaris Express over the wall, and re-name it Open Solaris. If you call RBAC cheaper and quicker, them maybe you have not implemented it before. For a home user it would be almost the same as asking them to implement a NIS+ domain for their laptop. Doug _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
