Hi, I am still thinking what the major issues are that many people don't give Solaris a real chance. Therefore, I want to consider how others sell their product and create a good image.
The image of Solaris is all about the big iron. Machines with many processors, redundance, and so on. But nobody has this at home, so nobody really considers it as being an alternative for SOHO use. But apart from the issues I mentioned in my post "Solaris vs. Slowaris", I don't really think Solaris is missing anything particular for application in this area. So what makes the difference? What do others do? - BMW talks about "Fahrvergnügen", which is actually a German word, but people seem to like it. - Apple doesn't talk at all, they only have some dancing persons - Marlboro - I think this cowboy died some years ago of cancer, but now they have a new one and nobody cares ;-) - ... And what makes an OS fancy? When and how do you "see" an OS? During booting! What does Windows show us during booting? A nice logo. Linux? Penguins and a lot of information about the system it is running on. And Solaris? A release number, a patch id that no newbie understands, and a license statement! Bah! After this nothing happens for a long time and one begins waiting much earlier and this makes the system being felt slow during this process. Say what you want. Choosing an OS is based on psychological effects, too. So booting Solaris must be _way_ cool! Linux shows a number of Penguis that equals the number of processors. If I run boot -v on a Sun I get a lot of useful information, but only if I understand what all these numbers are. /[EMAIL PROTECTED],600000/... is really accurate, but useless in most cases. Why not a give a summary of the upcoming system? E.g. number and kind of processors, disks, NICs, busses (PCI, USB, ....), memory, filesystem status and utilization. PLEASE: make booting Solaris an experice that everybody wants to share on his machine. I bet people will double their efforts to learn and understand the system if it is hip, funky, or whatever. This could be available for the next update release of Solaris 10! It has _zero_ functionality and needs almost no testing. Give it to the marketing gurus and let them do something really useful. But tell them that it needs to be running on a VT100. Maybe they'll come up with an ASCII art solution. Let's see ;-) What's your proposal? How should it look like to boot Solaris? Cheers, Tom This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
