Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Aug 2005 17:31 UTC
If Sun gets very serious about Solaris 10 on x86 and the Open Solaris project that it hopes will nourish it, Linux vendors had better get very worried. That's because, in the many areas where Linux is miles ahead of Solaris, Sun stands a good chance of catching up quickly if it has the will, whereas in the many areas where Solaris is miles ahead, the Linux community will be hard pressed to narrow the gap.
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2005-08-11
I'm not attempting to flame you or anything, but how does Solaris not have a good installer? I found it to be quite pleasing in fact (because it worked). I'm not sure what the worst Linux distro installer is... does anyone have any thoughts on this? I heard Debian was a pain to install, but I didn't think so. I breezed through the Gentoo install. I've read that many people are chased away from FreeBSD because of the installer. Took me a few minutes. So I don't get it, what makes an installer bad and/or hard to use? I could understand if it dropped you into a shell and expected you to magically know what to do (similar to Gentoo, except Gentoo comes with extensive documentation), but the Solaris install is very easy and straight-forward. So what makes it "not good"?