Hey Stefan, stefan wrote: > hello, > > i have been running OpenSolaris off and on for a while now but always > reverted back to linux because I missed some features like a package manager, > pptp and some other things. That is why i was really excited when I learned > about Indiana. Opensolaris with binary package management that would be the > thing to get me to switch entirely especially since it was developed by the > debian developer, my favourite distro and package manager ever.
Cool! :) > However I have tried both previews and found it somewhat lacking. It has > nowhere near the level of polish Opensolaris has and what is more important > it is missing all the quality Solaris branded apps that set Nevada aside from > linux, like StarOffice and the Sun developer suite, the solaris theming, > wallpapers, etc. Will all this stuff be made available for Indiana as well or > will it just use GNU/GPL apps like OOo? I would really like to see the same > level of polish on Indiana with all the SUN stuff included, now it just looks > like another plain Linux distro, apart from all the underlying technology > ofcourse. What you're seeing now is very much still a preview - it's definitely not as polished as we'd all like, and the application availability is poor. However, there's a whole bunch of people rocking to make that user experience much better - if you come back to it in a few months, hopefully you'll see a significantly better picture. You can expect to see all your favourite applications in the near future. Thanks for trying it out, much appreciated. Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
