If I wanted to run a GNU/Linux distribution I would, but apparently the decision is being made for those who like Solaris, to be made to run another Linux-type server.
Seriously, how long (how many years) and how much money is it going to take to make OpenSolaris a replacement for Solaris 10? Is Oracle going to spend that much money? To make a desktop OS work as a data center OS is not remotely the best engineering practice. Could you run Solaris 8 on a desktop? Sure. But why? It wasn't practical. Could you use Windows 95 as a server? Probably many did. But why? That wasn't its intended use. Now the OS is going to be retrofitted to make it an enterprise server? With Solaris you can choose what you want to install. Not so with OpenSolaris. You get what you're told. I'm probably old school, however, the barrier to adoption is probably right, but with those installers like RHEL and SuSE have, everything is going web-based and you need Java installed to open a console. Give me a Putty session and connect me via ALOM and I'm ready to go with my Jumpstart server! 'boot net - install' and off and running. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
