Comments on: Sun opens 'Indiana' chapter of OpenSolaris

Sun has released the first fruits of a new, more Linux-like attempt to make something useful from its open-source Solaris effort.

[alanmaguire]

network problems

you mentioned that you had the problem that the wireless network connection was preferred over your wired connection. that shouldn't happen, since Network Auto-Magic (NWAM - the technology used in automating network configuration) is designed to prefer plugged-in wired connections over wireless. a few possibilities come to mind as to why the problem you experienced may have surfaced, so i'd encourage you to send mail to [e-mail] and we can try to get to the bottom of it. my apologies that you ran into this problem.

[krosavcheg]

hello my future girlfriend

"and extra packages can be installed through downloads."

you can chop that out because it has everything to do with the new packaging system IPS, and nothing to do with the livecd

"This feature came from the Nexenta work, Murdock said."

the livecd technology comes from Belenix, not Nexenta, so that is probably a misquote

[Voodoo101]

RE: Sun Indiana

Sounds like it stands to be a big improvement over the six-cd install on the last edition. Most of the linux live distros are almost painless. The point is flexibility.....maybe Sun is 'getting it'.

[yacahuma]

do we really need another open source unix?

There are like a 100 different versions of linux. Why do we need another open source unix os?