On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 12:49 -0700, andrewk9 wrote: > I agree entirely with this post. My thoughts: > > 1. We in the community should not be expecting Sun to be addressing > all of the shortcomings in OpenSolaris. The community needs to be > involved in a meaningful way in improving it. A first step to > improving collaboration might be to add a wiki to OpenSolaris.org . > > 2. Sun's lack of presence in the consumer market (as distinct from the > business market) is one of the reasons Solaris is not as user friendly > as alternatives (as a Windows user, naturally Windows springs to my > mind here). One way of improving usability might be to create a distro > focussed solely on the consumer space, where we can pretty much assume > that the user has no previous technical knowledge at all. > > 3. Your point about command line versus GUI is an excellent point. In > my view, this is the single biggest shortcoming of most Unix-based > operating systems (OS-X excepted). One way to improve this in Solaris > would be to develop GUI equivalents to all of those really useful > command line tools we use to administer (Open)Solaris. > > Cheers > > Andrew.
One could argue that Indiana is designed to address these short comings. If there is a 'nice price' for the support and a willingness on Sun's part to address the short comings of those who pay for support, momentum could pick up. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
