Hello De, Thursday, November 16, 2006, 5:32:13 PM, you wrote:
DTG> I see another problem.In my opinion,the question is about DTG> maintaining a single version of Solaris for Enterprise and DTG> Desktop market.These two enviroments are quite different for many DTG> reasons.Ten years ago,we had Motif an CDE for all enviroments and DTG> this was ok.Then,with the arriving of Gnome and KDE,we have had a DTG> new challenge for UNIX in the desktop market .A challenge for a DTG> better user-friendly enviroment, for a better integrated desktop DTG> into the OS and a more simple OS management.So,why have not two DTG> versions of Solaris OS? Most of code should be shared from DTG> OpenSolaris project,we can add some characteristics for specific enviroment: DTG> Desktop release: drop CDE,add boot splash,more new code from DTG> opensolaris new projects into the system,more GTK+ apps and tools (for example...) DTG> Enterprise Release: maintain a strong compatibity with old DTG> software and hardware (for example...) In a way isn't it what Belenix or Nexenta are for? What for yet another distro? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
