On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Sunil wrote: > > - A big strike against deb and portage (for > > Solaris/OpenSolaris) is > > that no work's been done yet. > you assume too much...:) > > work on portage for opensolaris has been slow. there are battles to be fought > with gentoo people for full support. And there is of course lot of work to > get it going smoothly. > > I am currently testing it in its zone (what a freaking relief in the thought > that I won't kill my system as often as I would without zones). should have > some patches for gentoo folks and an update for you folks here soon (its > vacation time here..:)). > > portage is a beautiful system with over 100K packages ready to build with > full dep tracking and flexibility of being able to create and install binary > packages. I am going to add few more to that list for opensolaris.
Sunil -- This is great news, I happily stand corrected! Incidentally, I recently took the latest release of the Gentoo-based Vidalinux Desktop OS (VLOS 1.2); installed just the minimum packages needed to have a lightweight, dedicated "XMMS appliance" on an old 266 Mhz laptop; loaded it with mp3s; and connected the line-out to a stereo amp using a cable purchased at Radio Shack. In other words, an otherwise nearly-obsolete laptop has been reincarnated into a color-screen, mp3-playing component of the stereo system in our family room. And of course the OpenSolaris milestone I eagerly look forward to is the day I can re-install this setup with equal ease and transparency using an OpenSolaris-based distro instead of a Linux-based one. --Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
