Hello everybody again, thank you for all the comments. I have more questions, feel free to react.
I have taken a look at Dave Miner's presentation. Unfortunately, I cannot agree with the major points. On slide #1, Dave mentions that the OpenSolaris target users are developers & deployers. Isn't this precisely the reason why OpenSolaris still fails to build a strong community? Is it a right thing to leave out ordinary users? Isn't it like saying "Oh, we don't care about regular users, OpenSolaris is not good for them anyway"? In my opinion, a developer community (which Dave would like to target) only arises from a strong user community - not the other way. A person who tries OpenSolaris must first like to use it, otherwise he/she just won't develop anything for (or with) it. Maybe I'm missing a point here. Who are those developers that OpenSolaris is targeted at? Are they Solaris developers? I thought that they were Unix/Linux developers, and that OpenSolaris is trying to be attractive for them. If this is the case, I wouldn't expect that anybody would just throw Linux away and start fresh with OpenSolaris. Again, if this is the case, OpenSolaris just needs to take a friendly step towards (say) Linux users as soon as possible. Having to re-shuffle all partitions on a disk is certainly not what I would call "inviting interactive installation" (slide #1) or "painless experience" (slide #2). Considering this, why is Linux awareness/co-existence planned for 2009.10 and Extended Partition Support for 2010.04 (and not sooner)? I have received a message by Todd E. Moore, advicing to try out OpenSolaris in VirtualBox. Thanks Todd, I will tell my friends to try this. But still I'm having a gut feeling that this workaround is a little tough. VirtualBox is (according to references) easy to use, but inevitably slower than a native system. A review by heise.de ( http://www.heise.de/open/VirtualBox--/artikel/83678) estimates an OS run in VirtualBox to be roughly about half as fast as a native OS. Anyway, if you feel like answering, I'll be glad to know what you think. Regards to all, Turcin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20080725/ac4d70ff/attachment.html>
