On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Martin Bochnig <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>



And yes: How do you browse the web? How do you access social
networking sites? Youtoube" Twitter? Linkedin? With lynx and mutt?

Not possible. Wait a minute. If you say you never need X11 and Gnome,
you look like a MS-Windows user.

So please: Leave us others the nice Desktop which OpenSolaris now has.
Thanks.
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