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. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
