ken mays <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, this is the year to cut 'the baby string' from SXCE and see if the OSOL > Live CD can stand the test of time. > > SXCE contans a lot of legacy parts and I think a few years ago there was > talk of the distro constructor creating a larger OSOL Live DVD that replaced > SXCE. Now, Sun just provides a snapshot of the IPS repository on DVD and the > smaller OSOL Live CD. That way, distro providers can focus on the Live CD for > customized Live CD distros and still use the IPS DVD snapshots. > > So removing SXCE just removes a lot of historical parts that Sun wants to > change into the more modern infrastructure. Will everyone be happy and like > it? Well, do all kids like anchovies?
I have the impression that Sun is now going to make the same mistakes as in the early 1990s. I still remember when I received a Sparc LX with SunOS-5.0 around 1991/1992 and while this allowed me to sneek into the new base, it was not usable for production purposes because it was too slow and because it did not support SunView anymore. We asked Sun to provide us with the SunOS-4.1.3 source to do a port to the Sparc LX in order to be able to use the machine for our customer base but then Sun did the port after waiting more than half a year. Sun finally even created a SunOS-4.1.4 for new machines and in 1996, SunOS-4.x was still in production use. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
