[indiana-discuss] indiana vs nevada?

[Bryan Boone]

I'm waiting... expectantly, too.
My experience (from java development) is that as fast as Linux is over 
XP, Solaris is even faster than Linux.

I've had a couple of "false" starts with Solaris, OpenSolaris, and 
Nexenta on my 64 bit box...  I know that it (Solaris) can make the 64 
bit thing really sing, but alas, I'm a poor conductor :(

I'm ready to give Indiana a go as the primary OS on the box (as opposed 
to a vm) soon.


-Bryan

Glynn Foster wrote:
> 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
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