I really think that opensolaris should remain a core that Sun uses to gather enhancements from some great minds in the open source community for its Solaris flagship rather than have opensolaris available to bastardize it with countless 'distro's to fit what others have in mind of what OpenSolaris should be. And then taking their ball with them if the opensolaris community doesn't like it.
This is what happened to, and continues to happen, with Linux and this is the reason I eventually came to like the bsd's so much better. The feeling of coherentsy in the BSD's fit more my philosophy and felt so much more better than the ridiculous mess of Linux. Sun opening up and making Solaris Free (source) was not for it to be 'forked' into distro hell but rather to gather help, Q/A and some momentum. With that, we all get the most advanced OS for free (price) now. After my initial trial with Nexenta and then finding that X was installed in non-stardard Solaris location, I have now made an effort to only support TRUE Solaris-like 'distro's' like Schillix or even better may just stick with Solaris Express for my needs (Why hasn't there been a 'distro' where I can install SE without the long 4-cd install process). If I am going to use and support "Solaris", I want to be learning and using SOLARIS. Not some distro that goes off in its own direction (namely the dumb Linux direction) and then just adds the SunOS kernel. This is unnessary, Just continue to use Linux/Debian/Ubuntu/GNU then if it is SO good! All this wasted effort could be put to better use like making Blastwave better or something. I have searched the archives and I can say that I pretty much agree with UX-Admin's viewpoint regarding this issue in this old thread: https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=5511ᖇ Sorry if I sound so blunt for being a newbie here, but I just wanted to express my concerns. I am sure many others as well, come here looking for solitude from Linux spaghetti and more commercial support than BSD. Last thing I would want to see is opensolaris turn into a hobby/hacker type OS where the forum members bicker about the different distro's ways all being the best. Lets keep it standard. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
