Alan DuBoff wrote: >On Tuesday 30 January 2007 11:42 pm, Ian Collins wrote: > > >>I don't dispute that, the fact the Solaris can better Linux in many ways is >>a strong indicator as to the quality and number of developers at Sun. My >>point is not so much that more than one company contributes to core Linux, >>but many companies pay staff to work on Linux derived code, whether it be >>embedded or PC based. >> >> > >This is no different than Sun paying staff that works on OpenSolaris, and Sun >has open sourced more code than any other single company. > > > Maybe, but it's the perception - all it would take would be for one reasonably well known company to pick up on OpenSolaris to embed in their product and the perception of OpenSolaris would shift away form it being Sun only. At the moment, the almost automatic choice would be Linux.
>>>One of the more likely candidates for such a project might be 3Ware. >>>Anyone interested in working on 3Ware drivers? >>> >>> >>I would. >> >> > >Let me see what I can find out, I've talked to them a couple times. It might >be possible to get some hardware and help with specs as well. Do you have a >particular chipset of theirs that interest you? > > > To be honest, I haven't been through their stuff in too much detail because I haven't seen chip specs and they don't support Solaris! It's probably more of a case of which part is in demand. Cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
