Hey,
Ken Mays wrote:
> Ref: http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-6071598.html
> FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux
>
> "The modules that they're starting to consider don't have FreeBSD (support),
> don't have Solaris (support)--they're very Linux-specific," Clarke said. "My
> opinion--and I don't have any evidence to back this up, but from the
> conversations I hear on the list--is that the majority of the core GNOME
> developers don't use anything but Linux as a primary GNOME development
> platform."
>
> I'd just say...those core developers had to start somewhere. Doesn't mean
> GNOME and all its functionality and features can't be ported to Solaris....
Cool link - thanks for that! I guess FreeBSD are in the same boat as
Solaris at the moment, and like that project we've already got Artem
rocking on providing HAL for Solaris.
The problem is just making sure that we're up to date with the latest
bits and pieces that are happening in the upstream community and making
sure that we do a good job of tracking that. Previously with GNOME we
were focusing too heavily on providing a really solid desktop for our
current Solaris release - at least now we'll be able to continue doing
that, but also track what's going on with the next version of GNOME out
on OpenSolaris [1]
Glynn
[1] And indeed, we'll almost certainly branch spec-files soon to start
porting modules to unstable 2.15.x! ROCK!
