[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Indiana, just a Linux clone with different kernel?

[Michal Pryc]

Jennifer Pioch wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Mario Goebbels <me at tomservo.cc> wrote:
>>> Fight over nothing? What about those people who worked hard and
>>> accepted community input? It's a slap in their face, that's it.
>> ksh93 was ported because people asked for it and there was a long
>> lingering ARC. That didn't imply instant inclusion. Solaris shipped with
>> ksh88 since quite some time, ostensibly better than the old Bourne
>> shell, too. Not default either. No one rose a stink over this, either.
>>
>> As in that other huge discussion regarding the GNU tools, it's a
>> preview, a beta, still in development. Things may and will change.
>>
>> The reason why bash is the default shell currently may as well just be
>> the same why the GNU tools are preferred in this preview.
> 
> I thought Indiana is not a Linux clone and makes better choices, yes?
> Maybe not and the Indiana developers - whoever they are - are just
> resistant against any community input. Indiana appears to be a Linux
> clone with Solaris kernel, GNU tools and no real improvements.
> 

Jenny,

So you have tried Indiana, and you are disappointed? Right?

I just wonder if you could give more clear and argumentative points. 
Criticism is very valuable and teaching, but *only* if this knowledge 
might be used to improve things, criticizing without argumentation is 
working the other way around.
So if you will write, what you have expected will be really good lesson 
for everyone. Also I would be very happy if you will point those 
community inputs that the "Indiana developers" are resistant to.


 From what I can tell the things that Glynn pointed Today are 
improvement and not small one, just once again:

   o Single CD download, with LiveCD 'try before you install' capabilities
   o Caiman installer, with significantly improved installation experience
   o ZFS as the default filesystem
   o Image packaging system, with capabilities to pull packages from
     network repositories
   o GNU utilities in the default $PATH
   o bash as the default shell
   o GNOME 2.20 desktop environment


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all the best
Michal Pryc
http://blogs.sun.com/migi