> Driver support is very limited. And when certain > hardware IS support, it isn't always clear how to > install/use it. Console commands buried in man pages > aren't going to cut it anymore -- I hope Unix will > join us in the 21st century by the time we hit 2010 > :)
ALOM, meaning Advanced Lights Out Management, meaning console = serial port *IS* the 21st century. Desktop will die at most in a decade, and what will be left is server farms in the dark, managed via CLI, remote site managers (serial port concentrators) and ALOM. *That* is the future. At best, you'll have a set-top box running Solaris on top of your Hi-fi or TV in the living room and a thin client with a web browser as your "GUI". So UNIX is in the 21st century already and making forward strides -- it's just that the average Joe User needs to get more Informatics literate. "Informatics and I are not per tu" will not cut it. Computers will *never* be as simple to use as a toaster or a laundry machine because they are orders of magnitude inherently more complex. So that can be forgotten. Yesterday. Just like learning to learn, write, and do math, the average Joe User will have to get more computer literate. There's no way around that, at least not right now. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
