> Solaris Express Community Edition: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=404917&tstart=0#404917
I read about that in detail. It's the beginning of the end for Solaris as I knew it and grew up with. IPS is not fully cooked or ready for the enterprise yet, for example, Flash(TM) or Flash(TM)-like functionality of creating and deploying OS images isn't there, and worst of all, the IPS documentation is in chaos and the tools to create IPS packages are convoluted and strewn around. What also gets me personally, as a long time Solaris user and system engineer, is many GNU/Linux-like implementation choices, some of which, like "pfexec blabla" are being reconsidered by the OpenSolaris developers because they are finally beginning to realize that they are facing severe security and architectural problems. You'll pardon me if I'm not all that enthusiastic about OpenSolaris the distro. SX:CE was the closest one could get to Solaris 10. Instead of doing incremental improvement like Toyota does (they're the #1 car manufacturer in the world), and do incremental improvement on pkgadd(1M) and friends, or even outright BUY/negotiate with sgi and implement their inst(1M), which already solved the problems they are trying to solve with IPS, Menlo Park decided to reinvent the wheel once again. IPS is no innovation, right now it's a poor copycat attempt at sgi's inst(1M), with some of the HP-UX' SD-UX functionality thrown in. But yeah, the writing was on the wall as far as that one is concerned. _________________________________________________________________ Drag n? drop?Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live? Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx
