On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Gary Bainbridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> AI is replacing jumpstart which is an enterprise necessity.
> SMF is an enterprise feature and reminds me of AIX's srcmstr.
> zfs is certainly an enterprise feature.
> A text installer is not a gui that needs gnome or anything like that.
> I run OpenBSD as a server and don't have X11 installed.
> I run AIX as a server (granted it isn't a desktop by any stretch of the 
> imagination) and don't have X11 installed.
> I run Solaris as a server and don't have X11 installed.
>
> A gui isn't needed for an Enterprise OS.  I run HACMP on a text screen.  I 
> run Sun Cluster from the command line.  Granted, I have to use a gui for Red 
> Hat Cluster Suite, but that is a failure of the product, I shouldn't have to 
> (look about at HACMP and Sun Cluster).


Everything true. But what's your point?
You want to kill Gnome an X and want Sun to drop them?
Isn't RHEL a successful server OS? Did they get to that point by
neglecting or even dropping the Desktop?

On the SPARC end you can see, that Sun is directly doing what you suggest.
With Xsun being EOL'ed only a very limited number of frame buffers is
supported now.
There is no SPARC-LiveCD. And there will never be one that has a GUI
caiman installer like shipping on x86.

They work on a project that has the text installer which will be
usable via serial.

So which precise steps do you now suggest?
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