I've recently set up my first OpenSolaris server, and I must say I'm
impressed. There's some really cool technology, and the systems felt
much more polished than most FOSS distributions. Sure, there are a
couple of nits, and that there are at least two third party packages
repositories is more than just a nit, but things mostly look pretty
good. Watching a variety of the OpenSolaris mail lists during the same
period produces the same feeling. I was starting to consider moving my
other Unix boxes to Solaris (having been running FreeBSD on them for
the last decade) as well.
Then the 2008.05 distro showed up, and it was pretty much unusable for
my purposes. This caused me to look to see where OpenSolaris was
going, because if that was the future, I didn't want any part of
it. What I found was flat out scary. To wit, from the project overview
page:
"... the OpenSolaris project does not provide an end-user
product or complete distribution."
This seems like the OpenSolaris project is *planning* to become the
same kind of train wreck that GNU/Linux already is. I see signs of
that already. There appear to be a multitude of distributions with
questionable interoperability, each having their own preferred
packaging system.
Is this really the case? Or did I miss a document somewhere that
explains how the various distributions interrelate in such a way that
if someone says they're running "OpenSolaris XX", I'll know what's
installed beyond just the kernel?
thanks,
<mike
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