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

[Moinak Ghosh]

USM Bish wrote:
> 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.
>   

   Agreed on all counts. And we are working towards these goals. 0.6
   will begin to move towards proper SVR4 packaging. The entire base
   OS packaging will be present.

   Online repository is needed and will be of two types. One for the general
   freeware repository for a variety of FOSS stuff. Other for the base OS.
   The base OS stuff can be kept on the main website itself as it is not 
very
   big. For the freeware repository we will depend on the merger between the
   SFW and the SFE (based on pkgbuild) projects with probably a repository
   hosted on OpenSolaris.ORG itself.

> 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.  
>   

   Yes very much needed. In fact post 0.6 I am planning to start looking at
   building OpenSolaris on source on BeleniX itself so that it becomes
   self-hosting.

   However there will be many features coming up in 0.6 in a short while.

Regards,
Moinak.

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