Yea, I figured opensolaris was the path to play with all the new sun
technologies. Hopefully Sun will rework their current opensolaris install so
that we can choose our poison. I need to build a storage server with zfs and
raid-z soon for a prof concept that will allow us to get funds to purschase
real sun hardware such as thumper but I don't, will not be forced to install
code that will serve no purpose...besides unnecessary code bloat and taking up
valuable resources it introduces the possibilities for venerability and
exploits that could be avoided by keeping it simple for what your trying to
achieve. On the flip side, I would love to try opensolaris for my desktop but
instead of having gnome forced down my throat I would like to have more choices
such as xfce, kde, fluxbox. Personally, even for a desktop install, I would
rather just install the minimum and roll my own. This is why I love Gentoo and
even debian minimum installs as I have such a great amount of power throug
h choice..I guess it's why they call it open src. Opensolaris, on my first
impression, still seems to closed and commercial like windows as it is a
everything or nothing approach. I do like the new package system but don't see
why they just did not port debian's apt instead of creating ips. It would be
nice if they could get the power of gentoo's emerge for compiling src and
handling deps and also the capabilities of installing binaries quickly as
apt-get.
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