Bernd Schemmer wrote: ... > > To summarize: > > The whole design of AI as described in that document looks like it was > done from someone who lives in a perfect OpenSolaris world where always > only the newest OpenSolaris version is used. But : That is obviously not > the real world. >
Ahh, generalizations. The rapid release cadence of OpenSolaris often leads to a choice to release functionality earlier, in a less polished form than Solaris users will be accustomed to seeing. We do that because we know there are users for whom the functionality is useful, and we can work together with the community in evolving it. What you see with OpenSolaris 2009.06 is an initial release of some functionality to perform an automated installation of the operating system. We don't claim it's a complete solution, or that it's equivalent to Solaris 10 and Jumpstart. With a little bit of searching in defect.opensolaris.org, you'll find bugs related to most of the issues you raise. And by observing the caiman-discuss list, you'll see development activity occurring to solve at least some of them in the near future. > And, as far as I can see today, the architects of this solutions totaly > ignored backwards compability -- one of the big advantages of Solaris > until today. We've made some different choices based on a different set of requirements than were present 15 years ago. We expect to make some transition aids available in future releases, but preserving 100% compatibility with Jumpstart is not a requirement. Dave
