On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Stefan Parvu wrote: > important is to be POSIX compliant from start or as much as > possible. This will ensure compatibility with other systems > and adoptation by various vendors. Thats very important to > grow the community.
I've heard this a lot over the years and it's never made sense and that's perhaps because I came to Unix as an end user and sysadmin instead of as a programmer. POSIX and the Single UNIX Standards, despite the good work they've done over the years, have never really been on my list of reasons to include or exclude the adoption of any particular operating system. For example, I've never thought, "I can protect an org's entire infrastructure with [insert flavor] systems on the perimeter but -- oh, damn, it's not fully POSIX compliant so I'd better not go there." That said, not even OpenSolaris is compliant along with every BSD and Linux distribution. So to worry about Illumos being POSIX compliant when OpenSolaris never was certified seems to me to be an unnecessary distraction. -Gary _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
