On Sun, 21 May 2006, Ian Collins wrote:

> Matthew Gardiner wrote:
> 
> >Isn't that SUN's job of writing software for their operating system - or 
> >have 
> >I fallen off the Apple bandwagon, and expecting too much from a 
> >software/hardware vendor?

Neither.  It's no longer soley SUn's job.  If people want a GUI to admin
ZFS (and I have no idea why--it's so simple!), they are quite free to
write one!  Solaris is, after all, open source now.

> Experienced UNIX users shun GUI applications in favour of the more
> flexible and scriptable CLI, but if OpenSolaris is to appeal to the
> masses (read those weaned on windows) a decent GUI is a must.

Dunno about "a must", but certainly highly desirable.

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Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

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