Solaris is a server *and *workstation operating system, the workstation has
evolved/devolved into the desktop and laptop slowly over the past 10 years
so this is not a distraction at all.

Onto the next point, being a desktop OS is a good way of gaining mind share,
if a developer or administrator uses Solaris on his/her desktop have a guess
which OS they will use when they deploy! I am a big believer that
Microsoft's inroads into the data centre are owed somewhat to their success
on the desktop.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:41, Gary Bainbridge <[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems a lot of questions about opensolaris are directed at using it as a
> desktop (firefox and mplayer for example).  Opensolaris is supposed to be a
> precursor to the next Enterprise Solaris but directing efforts at desktop
> features seems misguided.  Solaris has always been a server OS not a desktop
> and I would like to see the efforts spent making Opensolaris a solid
> enterprise server, not a desktop OS.
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