[indiana-discuss] Minmal install CD?

[Calum Benson]

On 14 Oct 2008, at 22:25, Glenn Lagasse wrote:

> * "Thommy M. Malmstr?m" (thommym at at-hardeberga.com) wrote:
>> It's terrible to hear that not all at Sun are using Solaris. I've  
>> used
>> SXCE on my laptop since I quit Sun and it works perfectly. Now I've
>> switched to the new OpenSolaris/Indiana but I'm not really convinced
>> that it is that much better.
>
> Why is it terrible to hear?  It's a fact of doing business.  Until the
> rest of the world gets off the Windows platform and the tools  
> running on
> that platform there will always be a segment of any company that will
> need to run that platform and those tools in order to conduct business
> with the rest of the world.

And, lest we forget, Sun develops several of its own technologies for  
Windows (albeit not exclusively)-- OpenOffice/StarOffice, Java,  
NetBeans, VirtualBox etc.  That would be kind of hard to do if we  
banned everyone from running Windows... VirtualBox itself can reduce  
the need to do so, but it's not a panacea.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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