Hi Dick, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Iain Curtain wrote: >> ttp://blogs.sun.com/bobn/entry/solaris_and_opensolaris_coexistence_in >> Would love to hear how you get on. >> > Some update: > As I did not mention it at first, the part about the grub menu entry in > the article does not work if you only want nevada / opensolaris coexist > in the same root zpool. It's easy to solve though. > > I'm still very happy to have some nevada builds coexist with > opensolaris. I must say I'm in opensolaris most of the time. > It's a little nicer, smoother, better in most things. > It's more coherent. The past few days convinced me. > Still, there are some caveats... > [1] As I already mentioned in another message I don't like the TTF > collection that is delivered w/ opensolaris. It's too small. I -DO- hope > some pkg will be made available in the "extra" IPS repository. The ssl > cert is easy to get. VirtualBox is in it too, so.. > [2] Another thing that is annoying at times is the fact that you often > have to add pkg's you don't have (yet). I.e. I use the CBE much. > Building SFE packages often gives me warnings I don't have some SUNWpkg > installed (yet). Visit the repo again and again and again.. It would be > nice to have the choice of some "xxxx" clusters in stead of finding > every needed package yourself. But this is 'personal taste'. Once the > system is in order this thing is ver. And, IPS is wonderful. Although: > Agreed. Something like Ubuntu's build-essential package will be nice to have, to include all the necessary development packages. > [3] I don't understand the precise function of some repo's. //dev ; > //extra ; //contrib speak for themselves, -BUT- the "contrib" repo has > pkgs that don't work on opensolaris. That should not be the case imho. > They should be chacked more. > sw-porters-discuss at opensolaris.org should be the place to report package failure in /contrib. > [4] One other thing that I'm not quite happy with is the forced > existance of IPS packages and SVR4 ones. I.e. VirtualBox has an older > version in "extra" so you have to install the SVR4 pkg if you want the > latest. The same goes for flash. Only flash9 is in the repo, while > flash10 came out some time ago. Small things really, but things to take > into account. > > Conclusion so far: I won't go back to Nevada. Opensolaris is better, > nicer, more coherent, more futuristic, faster and has fewer glitches. > It feels like it's been take care of with more love by its maintainers. > > It differs enough that it makes me ask questions again. What newsgroup > is the best for general opensolaris questions by the way? indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org
-Alfred
