James Cornell wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> PS: My experience is with SXCE (Solaris Express Community Edition) not >>> Indiana on this hardware, and I find Indiana to be lacking in >>> extensibility which this type of setup would most likely depend on. >>> >> Could you provide more details on this lack of extensibility? >> Certainly support for servers is more difficult today with Indiana >> given the current lack of Jumpstart or something similar (but see >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ for information >> on what's coming). What do you find about SXCE that makes it better >> for laptops like the MacBook? >> >> dsc >> > UFS root is better than ZFS root with the current situation.
SXCE offers ZFS boot and works very nicely with LiveUpgrade. I see the point about the difference between local media (iso) and the OpenSolaris repositories... the latter isn't so good for the bandwidth challenged. > Nevada is > what Indiana is built upon and from my experience desktop support is > still better (Fonts and other closed components are still very > important). Actually, SXCE font experiences are all screwed up from b93-on [due to a variety of issues, notably freetype2 hickups]. b97 is reasonably ok, though, AFAICT. > Text-mode installer. Offline install and live upgrade > using isos. Probably others. Specific to the hardware, the ZFS boot > issue is the main concern with dual-boot. > I'm not sure what concern you have on dual-boot, I do this often. Perhaps you can enlighten us? Perhaps it is something which has already been fixed... -- richard _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
