First of all, thank you answer my questions. On 4/18/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I doubt it. BFU is meant for an ad-hoc update on a single system for a Solaris developer. Not end user, not sysadmin, but a developer. Which implies that said developer has an indepth understanding of Solaris, and also knows how BFU functions and what the caveats are.
Actually, I'm not a Solaris developer, I want to use it just because it's a cool system with many cool features, and of course, a open sourced system, my reason is same as many other Linux users. I used BFU just because I HAD TO: there was no other way to updating my system quickly. Solaris Express is not meant to be used as a day-to-day desktop system
because it is in development and it is changing. Some of those changes might introduce and have introduced problems as the future Solaris 11 (that's currently Solaris Express) is being fleshed out and shaped into the next Solaris.
Understand. But sometimes, users like me are so eager for the new features, they have already been ready for the potential risks that come with the updating. If you want a stable, productivity-oriented desktop system for day to day
use, and you want that desktop to be Solaris based, then Solaris Express is not for you; rather, use the latest Solaris 10.
For most personal users , their OS requirements are: 1. Usability 2. Stability/Security 3. New features When there is 80% of the 1st & 2nd, they would want more features. Solaris 10 may has 99% of 1 & 2 but litter with 3; and Solaris Express/Community may has 80% of 1 & 2, but with more new features than Solaris 10. I'd rather choose Solaris Express than Solaris 10. Even some enterprise users have the same requirements also: Some users have used Solaris Express for their production environment, if usability, stability and security are most important, then why don't they choose the more stable/secure Solaris 10? Yes, they like new features too. If you want to develop on Solaris for Solaris (and other UNIX and UNIX-like
systems), or just keep up and play with the latest, cutting edge technology in Solaris, then Solaris Express is for you. Otherwise you have to wait about six months till the backports make it into the next Solaris 10 update.
Yes, I'd like to play the Solaris Express, but I cannot spend much effort/time to debug the kernel, I just want to have a simple tool/way to update/recover the system. Finally, if you just want a "clicky-bunty" "don't want to mess with the
computer" thing, then you might as well stick with your Linux, or even better, go back to Windows or even OS X. The latter two are complete braindead "I just want to click around" environments.
I vowed: I love solaris.
Unlike OpenSolaris/Solaris, with Ubuntu, I never worry/care about the >installed packages/kernels: System automatically keeps them up to date. Neither do we with Solaris 10. Like I wrote above, Solaris Express is a development release and has different objectives.
I'm doubting: what kind of users are using the unstable/testing Ubuntu now? are they all Linux developers?
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