> However, many desktop users prefer the Face Browser which is why > most other Linux distros enable it by default.
Yes, but the reason I want to eventually migrate all of my systems away from Red Hat Linux and Ubuntu and towards a UNIX operating system that prides itself in things like stability, scalability, and backwards compatibility (ala Solaris 10 or maybe even OpenSolaris / Solaris.Next) is precisely to get away from the things that "other Linux distros enable by default" that tick me off. Examples of Linux things that tick me off would be the fact that so many Linux distros enable the GNOME login face browser by default... or maybe the fact that Linux likes to constantly break it's DDI and ABI (and break lots of other random things) every time you do a major update... or maybe the fact that there is no known working regression test for any Linux distro so a typical Linux user will upgrade and then experience massive regressions (usually 2 to 4 times a year) and these regressions can be more traumatic than an upgrade upgrade from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 or even worse than an upgrade from Windows XP to Vista. I've been using Linux in one form or another as a desktop operating system for almost 10 years now and if I had a nickel for every time it's frustrated me or forced me to waste an entire evening randomly hacking away at broken operating system internals that should be transparent to the end user, I would be a millionaire! If OpenSolaris is just going to turn in to nothing more than Project "Copy Everything That's Annoying About Linux", then there is no point for it to exist at all because, ultimately, 10 years from now, all the masochistic people who really wanted to use Linux anyway will be using: Linux + BTRFS + SystemTap instead of Solaris + ZFS + Dtrace. Getting a BASH shell and some GNU tools available and pre-installed by default in OpenSolaris along with an apt style package management system is a nice change, but it shouldn't come at the price of sacrificing the things that have traditionally made Solaris a superior operating system in very large enterprise environments with thousands of servers (like the ability to use "flarcreate" to make a flash archive of a perfectly configured system and clone it out to hundreds of servers using automated install techniques and custom built shell scripts and then use the JASS security tool kit to automatically lock everything down). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
