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

[USM Bish]

On Mon, 07 May 2007 22:20:59 -0500 (CDT)
Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Some  quick  observations:  1.  Little or  no  mention  of
> > Belenix. I think we need to publicize Belenix better.
> >
>
> Strongly agree.
>

The belenix team has done a  remarkable job in making the live
CD really usable, and there has  been a marked change from the
0.1  dished out  at foss.in  18 months  ago and  the 0.5.x  of
today. But  for more  visiblity, there needs  to be  some more
much needed changes instituted first.

a) Usability: It needs to be made HDD installable ASAP. A live 
   CD distro at best serves the purpose of "playing around" but
   no futher.

b) Package  management :  Something  other  than "apt-get"  or
   "yum" clones with its own  "look and feel", something which
   can  make use  of  existing solais  repositories (though  I
   personally  prefer  source  based installs  like  a  gentoo
   emerge)

c) Focus : I  would feel, we should target  the desktop rather
   than  servers,  and  be  a competitor  of  Windows,  rather
   than Linux/*BSD.  This would obviously entail  hacking more
   drivers and attacking the weird  array of x86 H/W currently
   in circulation.

d) Dedicated server with own s/w repository, catering for seam-
   less upgrades and security patches would help.

Once these aspects are attended  to and you have Belenix boxes
running on a few desktops at homes/ offices in day to day use,
you need not depend on evangelising any more .. Those who have
used GNU/Solaris (nexenta) would realise these aspects easier.  

Besides, without the above, neither publicity nor evangelising
is unlikely to be of much use.

Bish