Dennis Clarke wrote: > [...] > It is all too much like work. It doesn't matter if we are talking > Linux or UNIX. Once upon a time there was no real choice and we were > forced to install a UNIX system even for departmental level things. > There was always some head geek that took care of that server because > it is user hostile by design. Why would I think anything has changed > in that respect. > I think we need to start with the geeks and Linux geeks on universities are the right target audience to try to switch to OpenSolaris. Then we can expand further as OpenSolaris becomes easier to use in future releases. We can attract students/developers on the advantages of Solaris (ZFS, Dtrace, SMF, SunStudio, ...). But OpenSolaris needs to get easier to use to become accessible for wider audience (don't get me wrong, I think OpenSolaris 2008.05 is a tremendous progress in terms of ease of use compared to previous Solaris releases - it's the first release that I personally can use ;) > I look forwards to the Sparc versions. I have run headlong into a > brick wall on a few occasions because a user looks at me and asks "if > Sun makes the Sparc and the fancy flying Niagara that you love so much > and this is their big open source thing then why don't they have a > version for Sparc?" > > I don't know how to answer that at all. AFAIK the reason for not doing SPARC was that there wasn't enough time to get it done for 2008.05. The focus of 2008.05 were developers using laptops - we need students/developers start experimenting with OpenSolaris, and we needed something to get into their hands real soon.
One reason for this is that in the past Solaris was quite popular on universities but this has changed with cheap Intel hardware and Linux. 2008.05 gives us an opportunity to re-introduce Solaris at universities, because it will work on hardware students use (well mostly). SPARC is very important for Sun of course but that's the next step when the focus will move towards deployment. -Roman _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
