Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: > > Ian, I am more talking about Solaris 10, Version 11/06, but I have also been > exposed to more advanced developer versions. The shut down feature is not the > only difficulty that I am talking about. I am talking about identifying such > "irritants" for the common man, who is the Master by virtue of the fact that > he has bought a $500 machine with Solaris. > > This isn't the place to discuss the shortcomings of Solaris 10, many of these have been addressed in Solaris Express and other OpenSolaris based distributions. Let the past rest and look to the future.
I have been trialling Solaris Express with an uncommon woman, a far more fickle user than your common man. The only thing preventing her adopting Solaris as her exclusive desktop is some windows only software. The main reason she and a number of other in bunt terms, computer illiterate, users want to to use an alternative desktop is the volume of malware directed at windows. They don't really care what their PC runs, they just want something reliable and safe to read their mail, pay their bills and write the occasional letter. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
