Re: Solaris 10

["markw-4" <user=5@nabble.blu.org>]

 > As a die-hard Linux enthusiast, I have to say I had been hard-pressed to 
> find may good things to say about Solaris  for years.  However, having 
> spent the better part of the last 18-months working intimately with 
> Solaris 10 in an enterprise environment, I can say I have gone 
> 180-degrees from my original opinion.  I'm in full agreement that the 
> Solaris installer is "painful" to say the least, especially when you 
> need to be able to refine the install to customize a standard build 
> environment.  A lot of (imho) unnecessary effort went into getting the 
> dependencies correct and I too wished for "a better way" on more than 
> one occasion...  However, if you take a look at the OpenSolaris 
> Installation and Packaging Community 
> (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/install/), I think you'll find 
> we're not alone and progress is being made towards a new/updated Solaris 
> installer as with a host of other communities developing solutions to 
> address the demanding needs of the user base. 
> 
> For what it's worth, we've taken a Solaris 8 shop, brought it up to 10 
> and over time, positively changed the general negative perspective of 
> our user base by leveraging JET Jumpstart, containers, zfs, live 
> upgrade, Dtrace and a host of other functionality that was unstable or 
> non-existent prior to this release.  Thats not even touching on the lab 
> work we're doing with SunCluster & Sun Grid (fun stuff), and S10 X86 on 
> VM's.  Now I wont sit here and try to tell you it's perfect, because it 
> isn't, but then again, show me a 'perfect' OS.   Admittedly, the initial 
> curve was steep but we leveraged the integration of Blastwave into our 
> standard build to ensure we had the tools we all knew, trusted and 
> understood from the Linux side of the world. For all that effort we now 
> have a highly refined Solaris build on which I would bet the works on 
> it's stability.