Jai Iyer wrote:
Hmmm. I'd like Solaris to be an open-source, big-iron OS. The concept of Solaris on the desktop has always disturbed me, it's like err the Pope featuring in Playboy.
The OpenSolaris features will migrate to the enterprise (Solaris is already there, of course), but the OpenSolaris desktop is coming along quite nicely, actually. It hasn`t even been a year. More time needed.
But this desktop question has always been interesting. The desktop was never the exclusive goal for Sun, but there is a distribution of OpenSolaris that is focused exclusively on the desktop and general users -- in other words, Windows users. It`s called Jaris. It`s in Japan and it`s independent from Sun. It`s pretty slick. And it`s getting huge attention here in Tokyo for a new distro. Should be an interesting experiment for a distro to take the OpenSolaris kernel directly to Windows uses in a well contained market using positioning Sun would be rather unfamiliar with. Don`t be surprised if that Pope turns out to be Japanese. Things can get pretty sexy in Tokyo, you know ...
:) Jim
