OpenSolaris, no community? Nooooo you don’t say..
All the fuss over Opensolaris is pretty fun reading. In 2006 I wrote this here entry in frustration. 2 and a half years later what has SUN done? FAIL.
A long time ago I had a conversation with Larry Mcvoy (when I was much more dumb than I am now) who wrote this great paper in 1993. 15 years later what has SUN done? FAIL.
ZFS and Dtrace? Brilliant, wish I could use them on Opensolaris someday, in the meantime System Tap will have to suffice at least in regards to Dtrace. ZFS I use; through Freebsd.
Reproduced here;
“Over the holiday I wanted to try OpenSolaris because GnomeMeeting wasn’t working on it. Which a team in Sun is working on I found out from Damien. Anyway, it didn’t materialize because it was taking too much time to get started. Now I don’t mean time to get acquainted with Solaris, even though I haven’t used it since Solaris 8. No, when I say get started, I mean just download the goddamn thing.
1. Sun’s website regarding Opensolaris is confusing and busy. They’ve got an image in all diff languages I see OPEN in a big bunch of confusion which i’m sure it looks the same for other people in diff languages.
2. Read the about, great. I’m ready to get started. This is where the confusion begins. Look at the left menubar, look for something resembling download. *Click*; follow directions. I’m a 3B
3. Create an account, this involves email.
4. Accept License
5. Try to download all the isos at once.. Can’t. Only two at a time. I’m not sure if the recommended Sun Download Manager allows you to do so.
6. Unzip, burn 4 iso images.
I stopped around 3 originally when I learned I needed to setup some sort of account to just download. So, I went into #opensolaris and simply asked where I could download an iso of Opensolaris. I got links to two diff places. One is BeleniX and the other is Nexenta. However, there was some debate about what to use something about nv28. So, I just create the account and continue the process. Then I get to 5 where I could only download 2 at once, so I comment on that fact and inquired if the SDM would allow me to do 4 at once and why sun would only allow 2 downloads at once? I can’t run SDM because i’m using Firefox on a 64bit machine and not in a 32 bit chroot etc etc. Then someone comments about why I would run Firefox 64 bit. After the hour or so of gearing myself up to use OpenSolaris. I just didn’t care anymore.. /exit let those two downloads finish.. and that was that. Maybe next 3 day holiday I’ll see if its any better.
How fast can I get mostly everything else;
Clicks to download isos for Netbsd from www.netbsd.org: 6
Clicks to download isos for Fedora from www.redhat.com: 4
Clicks to download isos for Ubuntu from www.ubuntulinux.org: 3
Clicks to download isos for Slackware from www.slackware.com: 2
Clicks to download isos for Freebsd from www.freebsd.org: 2
I’m not saying this to be an asshole, I’m saying it because the process is clearly confusing. Even on the other opensolaris distro sites it’s not absolutely clear. Also in comparison for all the other distro/os’s above look at the download instructions.
I feel like pizza, there’s this new pizza shop on the block thats offering free pizza. They say its better, its got that special sauce. Lets go try that pizza today instead of our normal other pizza!!
Hello sir, can’t wait for you to try our new pizza! Look at this menu, decide what you want, fill out this form, come back, fill in this form, accept this license and then get ready for your pizza!! In quarter slices!! Excited yet!!
Heh, wow.. what a bitch session.”
Seems like I wasn’t the only one.
