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Saturday, July 14. 2007

Interesting article about the developments round about a more linux-like Opensolaris distribution - Sun OpenSolaris to become more 'Linux-like':

As it turns to Project Indiana, Sun faces another hurdle with its own customers. While Sun works to incorporate new Linux tools and features at the API level, it risks alienating existing Solaris users who like the OS the way it is. Haff and Iams agreed that Solaris devotees could push back in response to a perceived watered-down version of their OS.

I don´t see the risk of a contaminated Solaris. At first a more linux-like Solaris doesn´t mean that Project Indiana will only be a copy of Linux. From my point of view, it´s more like a Solaris with the installation procedures of a Linux distribution. And furthermore Project Indiana doesn´t mean that there will no Solaris Express CE anymore. So ... it´s a good addition for the Linux users converting to Solaris.
PS: The probblem statement that led to Project Indiana is a good read to unstand what Project Indiana really is.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 19:14 | Comment (1)

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I do agree with some parts of project indiana: Package management is kind of a mess on Solaris, especially when you try to customize an installation. Package dependencies can't be dealt with automatically.

But on the other way round the solaris installation is fine the way it is. Not every OS has a graphical installer nowadays, and Project Indiana will have to proove that the "alternative console based installer" is capable of handling the installation procedure as an admin expect.
I have to admit: My collegues and me wondering wether or not this project will do Solaris any good.
We're having ~450 Sun Servers onsite, and non of them needs a graphical installer. Most installations are done via jumpstart or wanboot anyway.

A new package management wouldn't be that bad, but there are examples out there that tell you where things went bad: I stopped using Debian for example because the package maintainers tend to split packages, creating a large repository of packages. But this creates a mess of dependencies, too. I was unable to update an installation because of unresolvable dependencies.

I hope that Suns decision turns out to be right.

#1 Christian (Homepage) on 2007-07-17 23:02

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