On 15-Jan-08, at 9:55 AM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > John Sonnenschein wrote: >> 99% of the time what people want isn't GNU tools per se, they want >> a specific piece of functionality ( tar -z/-j, tab-completion, >> etc ), but some influential members of the community have decided >> that rather than improving the solaris userland to make it more >> accessible, the proverbial baby ought to be tossed out with the >> bathwater & we ought to be doing a full migration to GNU. >> Some of us think that this is a terrible idea, and a sad state of >> affairs for an operating system that used to pride itself on >> compatibility and succeeded in the marketplace because of that. > It's far, far faster for someone to add the GNU userland code to > Solaris > than to compatibly modify the existing Solaris code , which is why > things are happening that way. If you wish to help out and provide > patches, excellent. All of us currently working on Solaris have far > more to do than we have time and any assistance would be happily > accepted. Suggestions about how we should be doing things given > unlimited manpower and time will be considered when such resources > become available :-).
and in that vein, why bother writing drivers, why not just switch whole-hog to the linux kernel, because it's work to port/write drivers, and it's easier to rely on a kernel that already has them even if it's not very good _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
