Thursday November 01, 2007 Bill Sommerfeld's Weblog
Still Under Construction. Watch for falling objects
Thursday November 01, 2007 So, a preview of the new packaging & install technology produced by Project Indiana was just released. I'm shortly going to be installing it on a spare system in my office just to give it a shot.
Unfortunately, it's being called the "OpenSolaris Developer Preview" and is being portrayed as a distinctly special binary distribution on the opensolaris home page. The name is unfortunate for a number of reasons:
- The vast majority of the changes have not yet received the typical design and architecture review received by Solaris components
- There is not yet community consensus that OpenSolaris should have a reference binary distribution
- There is certainly not yet consensus that the Indiana technology is the right tool for the job.
I hope the folks who chose this name despite ample warning that it would cause trouble quickly reconsider. And I hope that the poor choice of name doesn't deter people from giving it a try. But the choice of names is forcing something of a constitutional crisis within opensolaris.
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I totally agree that the name is inappropriate, but that's not why I don't want it anywhere near my machines.
I use quite a bit of Solaris for my dayjob, so having something like SXCE that is at least a reasonable approximation of the future of Solaris has been quite nice. Indiana has no such plans, ignoring ARC, putting the smelly gnu tools in as defaults and sticking in a root shell with tab completion (and those are just the beginning of a journey towards a desktop centric linux clone). So all in all, Indiana seems to be on a path towards becoming completely useless for me as a customer and I've got a feeling I'm not the only paying customer who is greatly disappointed at the turn of events.
Posted by Mads on November 04, 2007 at 04:22 AM EST #