On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:38 am, Eric Boutilier wrote: > My 2 cents: I think it's too early to judge this project. In other > words, I think they deserve the "benefit of the doubt" at this point > because they say the pilot will be short and because they apparently > have put a lot of original work into it.
I agree, but it sounds very promising. I don't know too much about this project, but if they have 2300 debian packages, that is a big plus. Amazingly, the thought of having a GNU system with the Solaris kernel is something that is doable...I'm trying to let that soak in...The companion cd started to do that in it's own way, but to think that APT would work on Solaris is very exciting. I have one Linux system which is debian woody. I like the way APT works, and how the dependencies resolve. IOW, debian has the dependencies laid out so things seem modular, rather than having to pull in the kitchen sink. If I could have that with the Solaris kernel, that might be the best of all worlds. I think the Debian system is as good as any other system. pkgsrc is also interesting, as is Blastwave, and Gentoo. From a user perspective, I have to say that choice is good! -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
