On 2/3/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am frustrated to say that people repeatedly miss
> the point. To remind - Those drivers were written
> long back ago (before OpenSolaris) by single person
> for his own cause and he was kind enough to make them
> available.
Incorrect. Those drivers (by Murayama-san) are still in development, and support most
modern, easily accessible and mainstream hardware. Please consult "Free NIC drivers
for Solaris" on Google and you will see what I mean.
> How long did it take before they will be
> in Solaris? Is that kind of speed (I wouldn't call it
> speed for god's sake) acceptable? Why are not 100
> people like that guy rolling up their sleeves and
> writing/reviewing/committing more of them? Because
> people do not feel like it would be for their cause
> to make an effort. Because people feel there is
> nothing for them to gain there. Because they know
> they will have to work in somebody else's accordance
> and for someone else's benefits. That was the point -
> it needs to be looked into as to how we can increase
> community participation.
I fail to see how integration in Solaris proper stopped any of us, including
yourself, to download the drivers from his web page and use them. I even made
my own build system around his drivers that automatically compiles them and
packages them for me. Works like a charm, with or without being integrated into
Solaris proper or OpenSolaris.
this is not just about solaris only but about the rest of the
opensolaris distributions as well, they are free to include them, and
i know at least nexenta actually does.
http://www.gnusolaris.org/archive/elatte-unstable/net/myamanet-vfe
distributions are free to include whatever software and drives they
want provided they have the rights to do so. The problem here is that
this thread grew to be too solaris centered and since opensolaris, you
can package your own opensolaris distribution.
you dont like how things in solaris are slow? get the code, integrate
it, package it and distribute it, some already do, if people like your
distribution, they will use it. That will even be good for solaris
itself since it will provide some needed QA
nacho
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