On 12 Jul 2007, at 21:03, Frank van der Linden wrote: > Donal McMullan wrote: > >> True, and yet in my experience the number one thing Linux users >> complain about on Solaris is userland. > > Looks like we have different experiences in that area. In my > experience, the problem occurs before even getting to the stage of > people noticing the commandline differences.
Yup - it's true that I've been talking mostly to sysadmins and developers who have to work on already-commissioned Solaris systems over ssh. On those machines, we don't install *anything*, so they never get to the packaging system pain point. So yeah - you make good points! Packaging in particular is pretty interesting, and there seems to be a lot of opportunity to innovate on top of stuff like BitTorrent, Bonjour/ZeroConf, and content- addressable storage. I don't know much about packaging; I'm just a user, but if there are any packaging geeks on the list who want to outline the strengths and weaknesses of existing systems, I'd be an eager reader. Cheers D _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
