On 5/12/07, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/12/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > First of all, as Marc said, Project Indiana is more of a concept than
> > anything else.
>
> So far, I haven't heard anything from either of you that has much
> substance to it. I mean, no disrespect, but it seemed more like mumbling
> in your hand...
So, wait, you *want* us to go off in a back room and figure all this stuff
first? Talk about mixed messages..
Personally I like getting some things out in the open.
One of those items that is near and dear to my heart is the open
source software packaging scenario. For some time now I have watched
as Sun did little to help get open source software out to the actual
Solaris end user. Piece by piece and very very slowly there seems to
be internal processes that would allow something "critical" like
Apache and PostgreSQL to be rolled into the Solaris product. I have
"heard" of a process by which the Companion CD was to be moved out
into the community but that train left the station over five years ago
and we built the Blastwave project to remedy the ills. After two years
of watching the OpenSolaris project I go looking for tangible results
and I don't see any from either Sun or OpenSolaris.org. We have a few
actual community distro projects and then there is Solaris Nevada (
rebranded Solaris Express ) which we know lives behind the Sun
firewalls. The SFW namespace which was to provide us with SunFreeWare
( or open source packages ) has failed utterly after years and years
of pushing, marketing, and bickering.
Enough is enough.
I am personally funding, pushing and providing an open source software
community project for five years now ( with some cool hardware from
Sun too ! ) and while the Companion CD and the SFW namespace has
barely managed to squeeze out 120 software packages we, the community
people that sought to remedy this situation, have delivered 1682
software packages via mirror sites and we have done so freely. We have
penetrated into every market sector. Into Wall Street, into banking,
into manufacturing, into universities and into the home user. We have
penetrated right into Sun Microsystems back yard and taken hold of a
large chunk of that market sector; the open source software user on
production Solaris.
I would think that we have some things to talk about and while I know
that we are scheduled for a conference call next week there is nothing
quite like just coming right out in the open and talking about these
things here, in the community that I value so dearly.
Dennis Clarke
Director and Founder
Blastwave.org
ps: partial list of active updates http://www.blastwave.org/cronlist/index.html
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