[ug-bosug] "Solaris vs Linux ?" (Note the double quotes !)

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

Sriram,

Thanks for sharing.

> 1. Little or no mention of Belenix.
>   I think we need to publicize Belenix better. With all due respect
> to Nexenta, I find that Belenix is way faster that anything else out
> there.
>   Also, Belenix is the perfect answer to use cases of "How do we try
> OpenSolaris ?"
>   I think we need to push for a mention of Belenix at the  
> opensolaris.org site.

We need to get the message out in the Americas. May be, get a  
magazine to ship BeleniX.

Seriously, we need to turn up at more community events worldwide.  
Berlin OpenSolaris conference is a perfect example. We got a lot of  
good press for BeleniX. More importantly, we had folks try BeleniX. I  
have not taken the pains to download a Nexenta CD and try it. I  
guess, the same reasoning goes for folks in other parts of the world.

I will be working on getting the BeleniX story around the world. If  
anyone is interested or has ideas, do let me know.

>
> 2. Ease of install
> Ian Murdock, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock) the founder of
> Debian, Chair of Linux Standards Base, etc, made a good point when he
> showed the Solaris installer asking the user to choose the time zone,
> followed by the Redhat anaconda installer asking the user to click on
> a city on the world map. He stated that a project called "progeny" did
> just this.
>
> I think he has a good point.
And why cant we contribute to such projects? May be install-discuss  
is a good community for us to join in.

>
> 3. Packaging improvement.
> Here, I felt that Ian Murdock was dancing around the issue - he was
> not willing to reveal just what he intended to do at Sun beyond mere
> evangelizing. However, he did say that at the upcoming anniversary,
> there's be some good announcements.

Good things come to those who wait. :-)

~Joe

>
> -- Sriram
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