> > While I'm all for fast, stable operating systems, > this is 2008, there should be no excuse for not > having even basic GUI interfaces for your installed > hardware, drivers, versions, etc. > > > Can SUN not even do that? I'm amazed. > > Basically the answer to your question is yes, they > can not do that (yet). There aren't enough people > working on the software to make every ideal thing > happen. Even linux distros took a long time to get > the features you mentioned. > > Only Microsoft has all the modern graphical stuff > people want, because only Microsoft has the resources > and the drive to make it happen. Even with more > money added you might not find Solaris with a modern > GUI, simply because the culture behind it is not one > that values the GUI as much as say, the Windows > culture.
"aren't enough people working on the software to make every ideal thing happen" Should I read that as "Sun doesn't really want to make Solaris a mainstream O/S?" Because if they really are (Why else would OpenSolaris exist?) I don't get the whole "who cares about GUI, it's all int he command line!" concept. Command lines though useful in doing batch processing and clumping together multiple things in a script, are a thing of the past. Managing systems using a GUI is MUCH faster and intuitive than using command lines. Sure, I like Windows and all the pretty GUI stuff that comes with it, but the reason I like them is because it makes managing the system EASIER, bot because Microsoft has more GUI porgrammers than Sun. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
