On 18/04/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can be critical of the Sun Update Connection because I was a paying customer for one year. To be fair and objective (and not be a "Sun PR channel", as some feel) Sun Update connection never worked right.
It shows patches for Solaris 8 on a Solaris 10 system.
This problem is not related to the update manager from what I know. Instead, this seems to be a problem with Sun's patch database (which continues to have issues).
It shows patches for Solaris 10 for packages which are on the system and which subsequently fail installation.
Which is not a problem with the update manager in any case that I know of, and is generally a problem with the update itself.
It shows patches for Sun Studio which fail installation.
It is slow.
Seems no slower than Windows update to me. Subjective.
It is written in Java.
Sorry, that doesn't matter one bit, and is a subjective unrelated complaint. There are many great programs out there that people use that are written in Java today (such as Azureus, etc.). Being written in Java has absolutely no bearing on the quality of a product.
It is ugly.
Subjective. Depending on which theme you're using it can look just fine. I don't know why anybody ever cared if an updater was pretty though...
And guess what? I did not renew my subscription.
Having timely updates and support obviously did not matter to you. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
