> I am disappointed. I'd installed opensolaris 2009.06 > and uninstall it in favor of Sun SXCE. In my opinion, > it is much more polished in terms of the desktop. > Things are much more well integrated, the icons are > nicer, and I love the Sun background wall paper. Like > everyone else, I hope there will be an easier > migration to Opensolaris, and hope that whatever that > is on the SXCE distribution will be integrated into > Opensolaris, including the nice Sun backgrounds :-(
I am sure we all know that whatever you do or don't do, someone's bound to be disappointed. :-( I was disappointed (& very much so!) b/c OpenSolaris was not moving as fas as I thought it should/could, and I have come to a conclusion that SXCE was a primary drag (will explain this later--or, on a second thought, maybe I shouldn't :-) ). I saw other posters mentioned Fedora. I was intimately involved in the early stages of Fedora Linux development. As far as I can remember, Fedora started in Hawaii as a school project to try to convert RedHat Linux into a repository based distro. When RedHat the company decided to discontinue the community version of RedHat, one of our local boys Warren Togami asked RedHat's permission to continue it within the Fedora project. And the rest became history. (Another of Fedora's very early developers, Colin something--can't remember his name at this moment--actually works for Sun, but I never saw his name in this forum.) It's is probably fair to say that RedHat may not have survived if not for Fedora. (Can anyone still remember Caldera?) I simply cannot imagine how a non-repository-based distro will attract new users (unless it came pre-installed in a machine). However, Fedora is now being badly clobbered by Ubuntu, ostensibly b/c the latter has a much richer repository, which attract new users, which, in turn, cause its repository to be even richer--and updated faster. This is, of course, my $0.02, but I can't see why OpenSolaris cannot duplicate the success story of Ubuntu, or even improve upon it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
