> For users who come from a Linux background for > whatever reason, system > maintenance has a pretty steep learning curve on > Solaris. This has > absolutely nothing to do with the substantial > advantages that Solaris offers > over Linux. Patches/packages, for example, are a > huge PITA compared to > .debs. There isn't a good reason for this, as > there's little functionality > provided by those differences and a lot of > functionality NOT provided in the > patch/package system. Same for the installer, etc. > It may not be a huge > list, but it's enough to put people off.
Especially if we have to depend on the system NOT to break things when we need the convenience turned on. > > So feel free to condemn those environments and users > as some kind of > hackers. There are a lot of them out there using > Linux that might be better > off on Solaris. My question, though, is that if > Solaris continues to work > for your 'real' sysadmins, what's wrong with it > being accessible and usable > by the 'hackers' too? Thank you. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
