On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:07:14PM +0200, Martin Man wrote: > The general faq seem to me more marketing/sales people oriented than > developer oriented (I'm silently assuming here that developers are the > main users of osol.org site).
Yes on both counts. Most of this material dates to the launch, and at that time marketing was actively involved in managing our image for the press. With the transition to an engineering and developer focus, some of it could be changed or eliminated. Nevertheless, it's important to have a good high-level overview of what OpenSolaris is about. There are still people out there who will be visiting for the first time, and we need to serve them as well. > I'd at least add the following questions (given the fact that lot of > people that come to osol.org are linux people) Do you have any data to back this up? I'm not disputing it, but neither am I convinced. It seems to me that many if not most of the participants have a lot of Solaris experience, and many have also used or still do use a wide variety of other operating systems as well. And of course people who've used different GNU/Linux distributions have different experience and expectations. > Q: How does Solaris relate to other Unixes (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD). > A: SYSV API, BSD API, history, binary incompatibilities, source > incompatibilities, kernel vs. userspace, userspace tools different from > GNU userland, etc. (make,patch,tar nightmare) This sounds like many technical questions. The general answer might be the Unix family tree (http://www.levenez.com/unix/). Would you be willing to split this out into technical topics? > Q: How can I get additional sw to my opensolaris > A: PKGv4 format vs. rpm/deb/tar.gz, nonexistence of repositories, > blastwave, sunfreeware, relation to solaris express The answer to this question varies by distribution (not all necessarily use SVR4 packaging; they may have their own format and even their own package repositories). We've tried (and need to do even more) to avoid conflating OpenSolaris and Solaris Express. But this is still an interesting question, and I'd be curious to read what you believe the complete answer might be. > Q: What are binary patches, and why they are here: > A: History; to fix broken package management; live with that for now. There are no binary patches for OpenSolaris (vendors may choose to supply these for their own distributions, using distribution-specific formats and distribution mechanisms). This is a pure Solaris question, which we've tried to avoid. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
