Alex wrote: > In this case nobody will install Indiana on his desktop/workstation > for long time. Indiana stay just OS for short plaing few days and > kill it later. > > As I understand Indiana goal - create FREE and userfriendly > distribution of Solaris and gather community around it. But if user > not be shure that his system will die tomorrow, he haven't desire to > install it. > > I wish Indiana becaming very popular OS, but if it's just > experiment.....
Alex, there's a subtle distinction here that I'll try to illuminate. When I talk about experimental in terms of compatibility vs. Solaris 10 or other releases, that's a distinct concept from stability of a particular version. Desktop Linux distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu, etc., don't make nearly the compatibility guarantees that Solaris historically has in regards to code from one release continuing to run on later releases. Indiana changes in terms of compatibility at a rate more similar to such distributions. In terms of stability, our processes are always designed around the concept of "FCS quality at all times". Indiana isn't any different in that regard, so the user should not approach it with any inordinate fear that "his system will die tomorrow." Sun's entire Solaris engineering organization would grind to a halt if we allowed that level of instability to occur. Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
