> Oh C'mon.  512Mb is not enough to run Windoze XP
> reasonably - even if 
> you can actually install it.  With 1Gb memory DIMMs
> around $50 (or 
> less), expecting to run a state-of-the-art OS in
> 512Mb is "absolutely 
> unacceptable".  If you're serious about
> (Open)Solaris, then you're 
> serious about your hardware.

We should never, under any circumstances, defend regression.

Regression is an error. A severe and serious error. Dealing with regression has 
been one of the main selling points of Solaris. If Solaris starts regressing 
now, it will have lost one of the most crucial competetive edges.

We should also stop defending every bad decision and hiding behind 
"engineering" for everything that just plain isn't right:

making that installer Java-based and Java-dependent was just plain bad decision 
and it caused regression. Rather than hiding behind claims that Java is great 
and that it's "engineering", the responsible person(s) should admit the error 
and fix it.
 
 
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