Anon Y Mous <[email protected]> wrote: > No, this is very much incorrect. Joyent does not run "OpenSolaris Indiana" in > production, they run "Solaris Express" in production. There is a big > difference! Go to the link below for Ben Rockwood's opinion on OpenSolaris > Indiana: > > http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1065 > > pay special attention to the part where he says: > > "OpenSolaris (meaning, Indiana) is a fabulous desktop/laptop distribution, > but it is a horrific excuse for a server OS. I've warned against this for > years. Sun has really focused on the laptop experience in order to whoo Linux > users over to OpenSolaris, but all the while Linux users have been abandoning > their PC/Linux laptops for Mac's. We fought the wrong fight.....My long held > opinion is that SX:CE shouldn't be killed, but instead it should become > Solaris 11. OpenSolaris can continue to do its thing for desktop users, but > give enterprise environments what they need to continue using the platform. > One day, I hope, all the kinks and immaturity will be worked out of the new > distribution, but it hasn't happened yet, not by a long shot. I've held to a > delusion that it wasn't a big concern, really, because Oracle would come in > and slap some sense into the roadmap, but no signs have yet suggested that to > be the case. We can only hope that by year end something pans out.
Maybe we should add an important hint. Indiana is not ready for the desktop either as there are several bugs (unfixed since a long time) that prevent us from using popular SATA drives for CD audio playback or CD/DVD/BluRay recording. There are other bugs that prevent us from writing CD/DVD/BluRay with the most popular ATA/SATA <-> USB adaptors. The latter is a show stopper for any light laptop as you need USB to connect the drives. My impression is that Sun is currently leaving the server market by ceasing the distribution of Solaris Express while the supposed successor (Indiana) is not ready for either he server market or the desktop. 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]
