> >Some of us came to OpenSolaris because we wanted an open-source >operating system that still cared about quality, rather than the >"weekend hack-fest" that the other F/LOSS operating systems have become.
Quite. >Abandoning ARC for all but the "official Sun Value-Added" Solaris >would be the greatest tragedy in computing since AT&T sold the rights >to UNIX. > >There are plenty of open-source operating systems where weekend >hackers can dump their bad code. I'd prefer if Solaris remained the >bastion of quality in a sea of mediocrity. But there's no reason not to also experiment as long as it's not in the main branch; there are dozens of parallel gates with experimental bits. More worrying is that the progress from experimental to finished doesn't quite seem to be happening. Casper
