From Richard.Elling at Sun.COM  Tue Aug  1 09:35:28 2006
From: Richard.Elling at Sun.COM (Richard Elling)
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:35:28 -0700
Subject: [approach-discuss] Making OpenSolaris behave more like ... (or why
	can't I have xxx instead of /sbin/sh)
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Maybe you just want a different distro?
  -- richard


From Tim.Foster at Sun.COM  Tue Aug  1 09:48:57 2006
From: Tim.Foster at Sun.COM (Tim Foster)
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:48:57 +0100
Subject: [approach-discuss] Making OpenSolaris behave more like ... (or	why
	can't I have xxx instead of /sbin/sh)
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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 09:35 -0700, Richard Elling wrote:
> Maybe you just want a different distro?

Maybe indeed!

Joe-user starts on a distro he's more comfortable with (sort of like
OpenSolaris-with-training-wheels) up to the point where he has to choose
whether he wants to buy technical support for his now-in-production
system. 

He then has to start making hard decisions about running an unsupported
OS with better (perceived) ease-of-use vs. learning to live with Solaris
and the problems he has with it, but getting full support.

Like everything else, it's a trade-off - my question is, do we tip the
scales more in his favour by doing what we can to make life easier for
Joe ?


Hmm, that brings us back to the "support" problem I think. How to
support multiple configurations (where support here means not just
"implement" but "take customer calls about x not working in the wee
small hours")  :-/
	
	cheers,
			tim
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group
Engineering Operations            http://blogs.sun.com/timf



From tim.foster at sun.com  Wed Aug  2 03:06:44 2006
From: tim.foster at sun.com (Tim Foster)
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:06:44 PDT
Subject: [approach-discuss] Re: Making OpenSolaris behave more like ... (or
	why can't I have xxx inste
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For the benefit of users of the forums on opensolaris.org, here's a pointer to my original post - the forum seems to have lost it:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/approach-discuss/2006-July/000186.html
 
 
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