Hi Mark;
Mark R. Bowyer schrieb: > Keep in mind that right now OpenSolaris is quite new. IPS is completely > new, and still being developed. Give us some time =O) sure, no problem. :) That's why I actually consider OpenSolaris worth supporting - it's a project filled with potential and interesting ideas, needing just some time to "mature" and grow. After switching from Windows(95...) to Linux, things were more or likely like this, but one seems quickly to get to the point considering "staying with Linux" the more "safe" alternative because, there, "things simply work". If it wasn't for people switching _despite_ some restrictions appearing after they did, Linux would possibly never have made it to where, say, Ubuntu is now. Looking at the potential I think OpenSolaris is not likely to fail because it offered nothing of interest, but I sincerely hope the project also will not fail simply due to lack of a vivid community in- and outside Sun... > I hope that support for OpenSolaris will get a proper, commercial grade > support structure in the future. I may even be one of the people > responsible for supplying the support (I do developer and OEM support > now). We might even buy, I guess. ;) > install I saw there. And the first time I used pkg to upgrade and saw I > had a backup BE added to my grub menu automatically, backed by a ZFS > snapshot... I was grinning and showing colleagues for ages after, and > have convinced some to switch their laptops to it. Given that however, I figured out that using Solaris on laptops (especially on mine) has just become fun some time next to OS 2008.05 release, leaving only my audio the only thing missing. Asides this, well, comin' from Ubuntu, neither installation nor upgrade really were much of a surprise to me. Felt a little frustrated seeing how long "pkg image-update" (or even "pkg install <pkg>") took getting something done, I wondered why the guys didn't just simply use .deb as packaging format... to the very moment until I saw my disk running full, until I discovered about the zfs snapshots created during upgrade, about the ability to boot an "older" snapshot if something failed... and until I learnt that right this is what I want doing upgrades on any more "important" machine without putting all my system at risk. From that point of view, things made sense again, so I guess people are doing a rather great job already... :) Cheers, Kristian -- Kristian Rink * http://zimmer428.net * http://flickr.com/photos/z428/ jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 176 2447 2771 "One dreaming alone, it will be only a dream; many dreaming together is the beginning of a new reality." (Hundertwasser) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
