[desktop-discuss] [kde-discuss] What features make a desktop OpenSolaris-saavy?

[michael schuster]

Lin Ma wrote:
> 
> 
> Michael Schuster wrote:
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>  
>>> On Jan 22, 2008 12:15 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> But what else would you want to see in either or both desktops
>>>> to take better advantage of the features of the underlying OS?
>>>>
>>>> Off the top of my head, features found in OpenSolaris/Solaris, but
>>>> not all the other OS'es these run on include:
>>>>   - ZFS
>>>>   - RBAC
>>>>   - DTrace
>>>>   - Solaris CIFS server/client
>>>>   - SMF
>>>>   - BrandZ
>>>>   - Zones
>>>>   - FMA
>>>>   - xVM/Xen/LDoms
>>>>
>>>> Topics for discussion: What others have I forgotten?   What could
>>>> we do in a desktop to better expose/integrate/take advantage of
>>>> these?
>>>>       
>>> dladm, wificonfig, the route command.
>>>     
>>
>> I think (part of) this should come under the SMF umbrella, courtesy of 
>> NWAM.
> I don't agree. Nwam is a service for me to set up the suitable/correct 
> network environment based on the information gathered from 
> system/network. It uses some system service management mechanism (don't 
> know the correct term) like service represent/start/stop/rollback etc to 
> achieve its goal. I think SMF is only a tool for Nwam, and the idea can 
> be introduced to non-Solaris system without SMF.

hmm ... NWAM is very tightly coupled to SMF (service management 
facility) at the moment, and I don't think we should even consider 
configuring the network without NWAM on Solaris going forward.
I do agree that on other platforms, the situation may be different ... 
but we were talking about (Open)Solaris, IIRC :-)

Michael
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