Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Apr 2007 14:08 UTC, submitted by flanque
"One reason that people might choose to miss out on OpenSolaris is because we're (in general) a conservative lot and a lot of people have had bad experiences with Solaris (and, dare we say it, also with Windows and Linux) in the past. No matter how much software and UI improves, it takes ages for the community to accept this. A reputation that took years to build can be lost with one bad release - but won't be quickly reinstated with one good one. So there will always be people who resist change - and why not, if what they have now works for them. However, various people pointed us at Ubuntu and 'an OpenSolaris-based distro focused specifically on developers'. So perhaps things have improved for Solaris lately and, as I said in the original article, it's now worth another look."
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Member since:2005-07-08
You might want to consider using JumpStart and Solaris Flash to build your systems, as long as you are willing to dedicate a machine to be your JumpStart server. A Flash Archive is an image of a complete system (including applications and users), just man flarcreate for details.
Member since:2007-01-27
Thanks I will look into that. It's the same thing I do with Slackware. The rescue console I have created has fuse and sshfs-fuse and I mostly untar a complete Slackware system over the network onto a hard drive to install.
It's faster than any other Linux distribution that way. It's nice that Solaris has such an option as well.
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2007-01-27
To get to a usable complete system as fast as possible so I wouldn't have to install anything for at least a year anymore.
I don't remember because I installed it a few months ago. It was probably something like Postgres or something else that's also provided from Solaris 10 onwards. It probably didn't help that I installed Solaris Nevada and "unstable" packages from Blastwave but still that shouldn't interfere with Solaris itself.
Sometimes Solaris feels a little more fragile than Slackware in this respect. I have also created my own rescue system for Slackware and put it into GRUB. When I tried to enable GDM in Solaris it didn't work very well either. So a small Solaris rescue system that can be run from GRUB would be welcome as well.
But don't worry I'd much rather run BSD or Solaris than any other Linux distribution so I'll probably try again at the start of summer. RTFM I will :-)
Edited 2007-04-14 20:40