David J. Orman wrote:
I've been attempting to keep up with the SX releases on OSNews since I visit the site
every few days or so, but I thought it might be wise to point out to people that it's
probably a good idea to start attempting to make OSOL/Solaris more visible around the
net. Especially with all the nifty stuff going on, and the rapid pace of improvement, it
would really impress a lot of people. In fact, for the majority of people who would be
"trying out" Solaris for the first time, I can't think of a better release than
SX. It's generally quite stable, and in fact tends to work better than Sol10 for desktop
users (newer bits, more support, etc). It also gives people a chance to see all the
wonderful features going into the next Solaris version.
We've got to keep plugging away and getting Solaris/OSOL visibility for it to
succeed. It can't just be @sun.com guys/gals posting in blogs, it needs to be
in public places via community members. Otherwise it'll be viewed as
self-promotion and largely ignored. When community members are evangalizing
OSOL/Solaris though, it has a lot more meaning to a lot more people, and it
might get people interested who normally wouldn't.
I only have limited time in the day, and I certainly don't visit all the
news/OS related sites on the net, so I'd like to hope other people could hop on
this bandwagon and help out. More community members would be a very good thing!
I'll attempt to stay on top of OSNews as much as possible as well. It'd be a
lot more helpful if SX releases had news posted in -discuss (or whatever
appropriate forum) instead of just mentions in passing, also. It's hard to
track releases of Sun software short of people mentioning it or checking
download pages every day. :)
Cheers,
David
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I agree; what I think is more important is tell us the features THEN
give us how they impact on us in every day use of Solaris; "here is a
new widget, and this is how you can use it, and these are the benefits".
Matty
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