On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:41 AM, W. Wayne Liauh <w...@hawaiilinux.org> wrote: >> On 17 Jul 2010, at 18:07, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> > One of the biggest problems with all of our >> community distros is that they are not compatible >> with IPS. This problem is further complicated by the >> fact that Sun's own OpenSolaris distro does not allow >> multiple boot with other Solaris-based OS. >> > >> > Things probably would look very different if Sun's >> top management did not summarily ignore all of those >> community distros. Instead, >> > they "had to" hire a Linux has-been to create >> something that never received support from the >> Solaris old hands. >> >> I quite liked Ben Rockwood's take on IPS: >> >> http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1125 >> >> I can say that I used to hate IPS, but no more. It >> isn't perfect, but when you accept it and learn to >> work with it, it doesn't seem so bad. >> >> Alasdair. > > One of the most distinguishing advantages of IPS which is also one of the > best selling points of OpenSolaris, is that, after you do an image-update to > a newer version of OpenSolaris, your current version will be persevered as > one of the dual-boot options during a reboot. I know I have talked several > Ubuntu users to take a look at OpenSolaris exactly because of this > ZFS-associated feature. > > Nothing saddened me more than the fact that Stephen Hahn is no longer with > the OpenSolaris development team. However, as honorable as Stephen is, I am > sure he has laid a solid foundation for IPS to move on and form the basis of > the Solaris.next.
That has nothing to do with IPS. It is a ZFS feature. I implemented exactly the same stuff on BeleniX using SVR4 packaging. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
