Really nice joke ;-) (we hope this situation will be changed, considering that an increasing number of Ubuntu users are very interested in OpenSolaris)
Don't use so much PR. A lot of people try OpenSolaris because Sun said that this is concurrent for Linux. Solaris/OpenSolaris has a number of great features, but for some developers or storage servers not for users of Ubuntu-like systems. Because there is a very BIG lack of available applications. If you will follow news for a while then you will see that there is very small amount of new applications even in dev builds. Just translations/themes/fonts and similar stuff. I know that this is needed too, but you can't use your system as a classic multimedia or home desktop without applications. And no, normal user isn't able to compile it. He/she will expect it in repositories. There aren't codecs in repositories, there isn't tun device so you can't use OpenVPN or vpnc so people can't connect to a lot of networks and no, compilation isn't really solution. On BSD or Linux there is tun device in system and in Gnome or anywhere you have GUI for network setup of these stuff. Maybe S un thinks that users of OpenSolaris will be good testers to improve future Solaris. This is completely wrong. Normal users don't want to be a testers and they don't know how to properly test. For desktop users there are two most important things missing - 1) multimedia support 2) applications from official repositories -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
