> As for SGI, they have their hands full with IRIX. If > you really want to have a real discussion of porting > packages to IRIX versus Solaris/OpenSolaris when > talking about SGI instead of "Linux" which is more of > a kernel versus a distribution like Debian.
SGI ditched IRIX in favor of Linux on Itanium coupled with their own NUMA. It's not about porting packages to IRIX, it's about asking SGI to port their software subsystem found in IRIX, namely `inst` to OpenSolaris. Then the community's pains with packaging would stop. > Can these problems be solved? Yes. Teach people to > fish for themselves and they'll be fishing until all > the fish are gone. Meaning, teach people how to > properly port and package software to > Solaris/OpenSolaris with support from Sun and its > engineers/developers and we'll slowly get where > Debian > is today. Why are we trying to look ourselves up to Debian? In the world of Linux, Debian has been almost completely marginalized, namely in favor of SuSE which provides nothing more than eye candy, and RedHat dominating Linux's share of the corporate market. Nobody even considered Debian until recently, when it took a reorg and the creation of Ubuntu distro to bring the zombie Debian project back to life. The concept of `apt-get` has been quite well assimilated into Solaris, and what's more, it leveraged the infrastructure that was already in Solaris to achieve what Debian had to develop from scratch. What else does Debian have, besides a SW repository which won't run on Solaris, that Solaris could benefit from? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
