On 01/28/10 10:20 PM, Gary Bainbridge wrote:
Now the OS is going to be retrofitted to make it an enterprise server? With Solaris you can choose what you want to install. Not so with OpenSolaris. You get what you're told.
That's actually less true with Solaris 10. If you'll remember, with Solaris 10, the "OEM" or "OEM+" was usually the only supported configuration.
If anything, the complaint about Solaris 10 was usually that it wasn't customisable enuogh. Because packages didn't always clearly (or correctly) express their dependencies, it made it very difficult to find a working configuration if you knew which packages you wanted.
With the OpenSolaris distribution, you install a relatively small core (that is supported), and then you add pieces to that.
The primary blocker for getting to choose what you want to install isn't really the installer itself so much as the package re-factoring work that is still in progress.
-- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
