Hello Bill, Saturday, April 15, 2006, 3:50:14 PM, you wrote:
BR> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> Hello Bill, >> >> Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:28:32 PM, you wrote: >> >> BR> I say this as someone who has no vested interest in Blastwave, >> BR> Sunfreeware, or the companion CD but I still don't see the point, the >> BR> "community" already has a more than one "project" to get pre-built open >> BR> source software. I still can not see a reason to create yet another >> BR> project unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the existing >> BR> projects. I have no animosity towards Keith's proposal, just scratching >> BR> my head and still wondering why it is even needed. Solaris/OpenSolaris >> BR> has SFW so everything else you are on your own for anyway. >> >> I myself would prefer open source software based on libraries already >> included in Solaris (like OpenSSL) - something I can't get with >> Blastwave. BR> I would too but sometimes the libraries are out of date. Solaris, for BR> good reason, has a slower release cycle. So for me having the extra BR> libraries is not that big of an issue because disk space is cheap but my BR> time isn't, I just want things to work. I know Solaris has a slower release cycle - but with CCD developed by Open Solaris community it could change - I mean CCD could be uptodate as Blastwave or other projects. Now it would be up to client if he/she wants the latest from OpenSolaris or Solaris release boundled CCD. >> BR> Besides Dennis has said something like this several times in this thread >> BR> alone: if you think blastwave sucks then join the group and help fix >> BR> things. >> >> I heard that already from some Linux guys - why bother with Open Solaris - >> there's already Linux, if there's something wrong come and join us and >> help fix things... >> >> Fortunately there's no one answer to all problems. BR> Let me explain my position just a little better. I am not saying that BR> there "should not" be another group, just that I don't think we really BR> need one. In my mind Blastwave, Sunfreeware, and others are addressing BR> the issue well enoungh (sure there can be improvement, I know they aren't BR> perfect). My opinion is let those projects take care of the outside BR> software and the OpenSolaris project (and Sun) should concetrate on SFW BR> and let others like Blastwave, Sunfreeware, and the OpenSolaris Distros BR> handle on they want to do things. Let me just add that this is just my BR> opinion of how I see it and I WILL support the new project if that is how BR> things go. Good to hear. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
