On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:33:51PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > I'm in pretty much the same boat. In my case, though, the disappointment > is even greater - we've been largely ignored in such fundamental questions > as what's worth doing, and what the basic requirements are. (The point > being that what we wanted was the existing things made better rather than > being replaced - even if the replacements were the best thing since sliced > bread then it would still be better to spend a little effort to fix and > enhance > what was already there, and that would have generated much more > community involvement.) > +1. I think it's this attitude that's alienated a large part of the original community. When Solaris was first opensourced, there was a rush of traditional enterprise users, but many have left as it's become clear that the movement around Indiana has little interest in keeping the ties to Solaris. These days, a desktop user switching from linux would be in for less of a shock than an enterprise user switching from Solaris 10.
> Even if that input is - don't do this, pick up jumpstart and fix that? > > I have a really big worry here. Most shops have a variety of tools, and > are generally looking to reduce the diversity of tools they support. Adding > a new tool isn't going to go down well, at all. I can see a thought process > going along the lines of: "hm, we gotta drop jumpstart, we aren't allowing > anything new, so all our new boxes get installed with kickstart because > that works just great for us". > Agreed. Over time I've spent a lot of time on jumpstart, and I don't want to see it replaced by something else. vh Mads Toftum -- http://soulfood.dk
