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

[Abhishek]

Strongly agree with the suggestion of making the distro installable to 
the HDD. This is important and i'm sure people are thinking/working on it.

Cheers,
Abhishek
(Since this is my first reply on this list, just for intros, Abhishek, 
from COEP, Pune. Hello everyone.)

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.
>
> 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
>
>
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