> > I've been exploring Kubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuse the past few days, and I > think it's worth taking some good points from there. > > Here are my own thoughts: > - even for a developer (e.g. a person coming from the Linux world), > there would be some commands that would be different (e.g. pfexec > instead of sudo). > - we could permit the user to turn this feature off via a Control Panel entry. > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > Perhaps something that can be turned on or off upon install, then later say by GUI tool for novice users or cli for more advanced users??
As a Linux user for both desktops and servers I can see how this would be helpful to people that didn't know their way around the system as I was there once with Linux and now with Solaris I am there again even though have been using it for about 4-5 months now. I mean my personal thoughts are that I really like Solaris and all it's versions but the lack of packages and say some admin tasks which are so easy on Linux, Solaris makes really hard like adding paths to /etc/default/su and /etc/default/login when a new install is made or adding users in which you have to run the addgroup command then adduser command with -d flag set for directory etc.... On Linux I can just do adduser which will take care of creating user dir, name, password and all the rest. I really do see the potential with Belenix, now with 0.8 being on the way to actually rival Linux for desktop, server, and developer usage alike!!!!! If coming over from say Windows or Mac OSX then you are going to be dealing with 'GUI Joe' rather then 'Johnny SSH' or 'CLI Mike' basically meaning like I suggested the GUI tool is there to turn things off and on but also having a CLI backend in which CLI happy people can use at will..... I know my input doesn't count for much as I have less experience then everyone here probably in all directions :-) but I know too many users who are petrified of the CLI as they just don't get. Which was even the case during my Cisco labs where people could not understand telnet, SSH, or STTY lines to communicate with the IOS. Luckily SDM was not installed so they 'had' to learn but still it pained them. What do you guys think?? Of GUI tool with CLI backend??? Kind of like Xine and Xine-UI as a really bad example! Kaya
