> Hopefully by the time Solaris 11 will be released, it > will be a > professional distribution which has had attention > spent not only on the > technical aspects by the interface in which > administrators interact with > the operating system.
If it's a 'professional' distribution, then we don't need such things as eye-candy "Next -> Next -> Next" installer. Professionals use Flash(TM) archives and JumpStart(TM) for hands-off, non-interactive installation. The only reason Caiman is being worked on is because the majority of people out there quite falsely believe they need *a desktop*. Desktop will die, and will be eventually replaced with thin clients and applications running on an intranet or the InterNet, inside of a web browser. Ironically enough, these applications will be powered by headless Solaris servers with *no desktop* and *no graphics* and installed not via a pretty GUI with pretty pictures, but via fully automated installation mechanism, aka JumpStart(TM). At any rate, that's what 'professional' should mean, not pretty well polished GUIs always playing catch-up with the command line tools. The only thing is getting into the people's skulls that they *don't* need a desktop, and that the network is the computer. Now that's a tough one. I equate it to getting the population literate throughout the middle ages. (They weren't called "dark ages" for nothing.) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
