> 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.
One of the most distinguishing advantages of IPS which is also one of the best selling points of OpenSolaris, is that, after you do an image-update to a newer version of OpenSolaris, your current version will be persevered as one of the dual-boot options during a reboot. I know I have talked several Ubuntu users to take a look at OpenSolaris exactly because of this ZFS-associated feature. Nothing saddened me more than the fact that Stephen Hahn is no longer with the OpenSolaris development team. However, as honorable as Stephen is, I am sure he has laid a solid foundation for IPS to move on and form the basis of the Solaris.next. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
