On 17 Jul 2010, at 18:07, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > One of the biggest problems with all of our community distros is that they > are not compatible with IPS. This problem is further complicated by the fact > that Sun's own OpenSolaris distro does not allow multiple boot with other > Solaris-based OS. > > Things probably would look very different if Sun's top management did not > summarily ignore all of those community distros. Instead, > they "had to" hire a Linux has-been to create something that never received > support from the Solaris old hands.
I quite liked Ben Rockwood's take on IPS: http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1125 I can say that I used to hate IPS, but no more. It isn't perfect, but when you accept it and learn to work with it, it doesn't seem so bad. Alasdair. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
