On 01/03/07, Girts Zeltins <girtszeltins at inbox.lv> wrote: > Hello, > > Why I am writing this text, I am writing to talk about mistakes which is > founding in Solaris in its future. > I see two prototypes of installation system and I want to say all two are > bad, sorry bad. Why? Because these graphical GUI which will need lots of > memory to use. As we know that there are millions of people who wants to use > Solaris on their machines but they cannot run it because it now need more > memory than long time ago when there was Solaris 8. > Sorry Sun guys, developers, you are making big mistake and this is bad for > Solaris popularity and this is why people will prefer Linux!!!
Actually, there are many Linux distributions that also require a lot of memory during installation. However, I too would like to see the requirements lowered if possible. These install projects will be working to address the memory requirements I believe, and I know that there will still be a text-based installer available because of headless systems, serial console, etc. > JDS which is now in Solaris Express Community Build 57 and Solaris Express > Developer need more memory to run and there is no need such GUI as JDS (Java > GNOME) but there is need clean GNOME where can be two Sun Microsystems > created themes which can be used if you have very fast computer. I'm not sure what you're speaking of here. JDS is just as much of a "clean" GNOME as many of the distributions of GNOME that are shipped with various Linux distributions. The Java part of the name is just marketing, it doesn't use more memory magically because of it :) > The one of correct ways is to use Anaconda (Text, Graphical) installer and > incorporate GParted technology for partitioning. I'm also not certain what this has to do with GNOME or JDS. If you're talking about the installer in general, not every Linux distribution uses Anaconda either. I think there are many correct ways to make a great installer. > There must be no need to use other partitioning tools to resize, delete > partitions which are already on computer (QNX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, Linux, > Windows,...) I'm certain that is an eventual goal of the installer project. I know that many people would like to see this. > There is need to rename project JDS to GNOME SUN marketing has chosen to keep this name. Many of us would like to see the name not be JDS, but the name really doesn't mean that much, people will still know it's GNOME. That's obvious even from the startup dialog a user sees the first time they login. >and allow people of community to work on improving GNOME I have good news then! You can join the JDS project and help work on improving GNOME now: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/ > and there must be new KDE project where people of community can work on > discussing and recommendations for KDE in Solaris. I have good news then! It was recently announced that a KDE project for Solaris will be started soon: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=84502𔨖 Although KDE for Solaris was originally announced almost two years ago here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=1586ز and you can find the official KDE solaris website here: http://solaris.kde.org/ > This must be for CDE too and special community opened for CDE. While many people would like to see this, the copyright holders for CDE (other than SUN) are not currently interested in this from what we know. Currently, CDE users are welcome to discuss CDE in the desktop community. As far as a "special community", I believe you mean list or forum, and that would be up to others. > I want to ask developers to think again about Solaris future. Thanks for taking the time to communicate your thoughts on Solaris and the desktop. > Sorry Sun Microsystems, please think about people which don't have fast > computers and think how to improve CDE!!! SUN cares a lot about performance. You can discuss performance here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=26 As far as CDE goes though, I believe most people would agree that it is a dead-end for future development. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
