As with XEN you can install several OSs ... Indiana (with XEN) can provide the best developer and gaming plattform.
Imagine, you can have the hard disk with the excellent ZFS And as guest OSs: XP Vista Ubuntu Tiger Leopard For developing and test all appications. Or for playing at the best perfomance system for the game you are going to play. And the 2-5% performance you loose, you can win without resident antivirus (only some scan). Of course navigation, mail and office would be used from principal system, in this case Indiana. It (Xen virtualization) would be a excellent new to offer to the press. "This new OS host all the other without loosing performance and have the best flle system.... if you like to have several OSs or several OS installations you can switch between them without restarting your machine" A MAC machine runnng Indiana (w/Xen) and Xp, Vista, Tiger & Leopard. It would help Apple an MS, with their migration problems, but this help in a short term would be a great deal to the future, becouse OSs will become hosted, and for users they would be as programs but the real OS, the base would be XEN (or any other similar project) and a X system, that can be Indiana if it is the first one in making it as a default. Of course some GUIs to configure Xen must be done, and some tools to install the same system the user uses now, with a ghost make of their system for being ported to the Xen VM, and scripts that can do that operation for newbis, as easy as click. I think the best way is to make scripts to port XP, Vista, Ubuntu, Tiger, Leopard, OS2, RH, OpenSuse, and even Indiana for making it the default system for new desktops and laptops,at least for one brand. Or even making Sun affordable machines with Intel or AMD processors for selling this idea with earns for Sun. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
