[indiana-discuss] indiana vs nevada?

[Glynn Foster]

Hey Stefan,

stefan wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i have been running OpenSolaris off and on for a while now but always
> reverted back to linux because I missed some features like a package manager,
> pptp and some other things. That is why i was really excited when I learned
> about Indiana. Opensolaris with binary package management that would be the
> thing to get me to switch entirely especially since it was developed by the
> debian developer, my favourite distro and package manager ever.

Cool! :)

> However I have tried both previews and found it somewhat lacking. It has
> nowhere near the level of polish Opensolaris has and what is more important
> it is missing all the quality Solaris branded apps that set Nevada aside from
> linux, like StarOffice and the Sun developer suite, the solaris theming,
> wallpapers, etc. Will all this stuff be made available for Indiana as well or
> will it just use GNU/GPL apps like OOo? I would really like to see the same
> level of polish on Indiana with all the SUN stuff included, now it just looks
> like another plain Linux distro, apart from all the underlying technology
> ofcourse.

What you're seeing now is very much still a preview - it's definitely not as 
polished as we'd all like, and the application availability is poor. However, 
there's a whole bunch of people rocking to make that user experience much better 
- if you come back to it in a few months, hopefully you'll see a significantly 
better picture. You can expect to see all your favourite applications in the 
near future.

Thanks for trying it out, much appreciated.


Glynn