I'm waiting... expectantly, too. My experience (from java development) is that as fast as Linux is over XP, Solaris is even faster than Linux.
I've had a couple of "false" starts with Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Nexenta on my 64 bit box... I know that it (Solaris) can make the 64 bit thing really sing, but alas, I'm a poor conductor :( I'm ready to give Indiana a go as the primary OS on the box (as opposed to a vm) soon. -Bryan Glynn Foster wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
