Software moves on, bugs and security problems are fixed in successive versions and general quality gets better. I hear that argument all the time, but in practice it tends not to hold up. I see this as good because I would rather have a stable platform that works than one that has all of the latest software that doesn’t work. Making this problem worse isn’t going to help OpenSolaris. Getting up-to-date software in the Linux world is a perennial problem as well. Sun tends to be a little conservative when it comes to adding software to Solaris, and I don’t see the trend changing with OpenSolaris. The fact is, Ryan Paul couldn’t get any of the networking tools to actually work and give him network access. I’d be very disappointed if I had to resort to that on a Linux distribution (and I’d expect to see things like supplied hostnames handled OK as well), and it’s a big reason why people use DHCP in the first place. That’s as clear a case of networking not working as I’ve read. I modified the /etc/nf to populate the file with good DNS servers and modified the hosts entry of /etc/nf and was immediately able to access the Internet. This is long overdue for Solaris, and it isn’t really news. Well, most do, and the Unix-like operating system world has moved on now and better usability isn’t just about being root. I do not spend that much time as root to justify a shell with an increased level of usability… There seems to be a misplaced automatic assumption that the mere mention of ZFS will be enough for everyone and cause mass drooling. That the Gnome desktop environment is used and includes the standard assortment of desktop applications, except for office software (OpenOffice)…That OpenSolaris doesn’t ship with the latest and greatest applications…That hardware support is still a problem…That Sun has a long way to go before the reviewers are happy with OpenSolaris.ĭo you really need to know anything else?Īny significant attention paid to ZFS as the default filesystem other than the mention of it in the ArsTechnica piece.īecause a filesystem on its own is not enough for people to start praising OpenSolaris.
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