> I'm still trying to figure out how to ask questions in this forum. There is a whole gaggle of people that share your feelings. I'm one of them and I have been doing this since the "Open Solaris" idea was tossed around and I still don't know what is going on with the maillists.
I'm being quite serious. What is OpenSolaris ? Is it Indiana? Is it OpenSolaris Developers PreRelease? Is it the os200805 binary download image? Is it Solaris Express or Solaris Nevada or Solaris Express Developers Release or Solaris Express Community Release? Just wait a few weeks and there will be a new name? Be happy that it isn't Java Enterprise Operating System. :-) Just download that os200805 binary image .. but no no .. not that one .. you want the new one which is harder to find and you have to go hunting for it : see http://blastwave.network.com/OpenSolaris or in China http://blastwave.unix-center.net/OpenSolaris BUT STOP ! Not that one either. That is the "old" stuff from back in May and you will want the latest which is in http://blastwave.network.com/OpenSolaris/update or in China you get http://blastwave.unix-center.net/OpenSolaris/update/ ... and then you have to do some update gyrations just like Ubuntu or Fedora Core or .. Windows XP or Vista. See my blog about that : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/113 As near as I can tell that thing is OpenSolaris(tm) and all other things are not OpenSolaris(tm). If you want something from the community then get Belenix at http://www.belenix.org/ Which is hellish slick and based on OpenSolaris(tm) but it is not OpenSolaris(tm) because that would be a trademark violation. What was your question ? :-) > Have you switched to opensolaris?? When you say "switched" do you mean full time and that is my operating system of choice now? No. Do I have it running and am working with it everyday? Yes. > One of the things which turned me off to > evaluating the build was the loss of control over root filesystem. You never had control to begin with. So let's get that out of the way. The root filesystem is a nice hanger where all the other stuff mounts and all I can say about the new way of things is go ahead and kick at the walls and yell about things changing and bite your nails but look into it and embrace it. You will find that the new way of things is very smart and in fact, it is a whole new paradigm for installation update and system maintenance. I have embraced that fully and I love to blog about it. Go read about beadm(1m) and see the impact that it has. Let go of some of the things of the past ... > How much room is in root for /opt or /var to grow. Those guys you can hang into separate filesystems if you want .. but it isn't wise to do so anymore. Nor even required. I had a patch disaster on Solaris 10 Update 5 and NOT with OpenSolaris. I had way too many zones on that box perhaps and not enough space for all that patch duplication? Maybe I just didn't have enough space in my root filesystem and whammo .. I ran out of disk space in the middle of applying patches. My bad. > Its seems now the option to run sxde is gone. Well ... no .. yes .. it is hard to say. Going forwards sometimes forces change. We need to change thinking as well as change habits. That is really the hard part. Dennis Clarke read these : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/110 http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/113 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
