Re: Is Sun sincere about encouraging new Solaris users?

The DVD version of Solaris is not an option because the target machine
is somewhat older and does not have a DVD drive. It's basically my
primary scratch monkey.

However, from reviewing the entire discussion, it seems pretty clear
that the answer to my original question is "No, Sun is not sincere
about encouraging new Solaris users."

I regard that as unfortunate. In spite of the personal ad hominem
attacks mixed into the thread, I think I do appreciate a good OS as
well as or better than most folks. Heaven knows I've suffered with
enough bad ones over the years. However, I also appreciate Larry's
three virtues. Or perhaps I should simply state that I am not a
masochist looking for fresh forms of pain. The evidence is pretty
clear, both from Sun's website and this discussion, that Sun is
indifferent or even hostile towards new users.

Sun's decision not to encourage new Solaris users is obviously
reasonable in some ways. One obvious example is that less
sophisticated users will be looking for more help in comparison to
more technically sophisticated people. However, I do think it
unfortunate that Microsoft's position has become so strong that no one
is even willing and able to seriously enter the field of battle. They
could have waited 10 more years before waltzing out Vista and it
probably wouldn't have made any difference--but I'm still going to do
my best to never own a Vista machine (though of course I expect to be
inflicted with them at work).

On Jan 29, 11:56 pm, "Canuck57" <dave-no_s...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Shannon Jacobs" <Shannon.Jacobs.nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:1170029933.754010.232600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

At this point, I think not. Or is Solaris really such a piece of
bloatware that Sun is unable to condense it to a single installation
CD?Solaris has more in it's distribution than does distros like Ubuntu.

Why not download the DVD version of Solaris? It is one burn.

Me, I installed at least 20 systems this weekend and didn't burn a single
DVD nor a CD. I just powered up VMWare on my portable, pointed it to a
Solaris DVD ISO image, installed it. Then setup DHCP and install server and
booted other systems from it. Once I had one each of Intel and Sparc
installed, I tailored the images and made flash archives. The rest of it
was easy... Can't do that with Microsoft or Ubuntu's native distribution
without buying something else like ghost.

Yes, I run Unbuntu too. It is very good as an entry level stand alone Linux
workstation. Solaris targets a different breed.
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