* Kaiwai Gardiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:53 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > > UNIX admin wrote: > > >> Do you MEAN that OpenSolaris distro only thats short > > >> list ? > > > > > > I do not believe that there would be very many happy people in the > > > Solaris community if we started seeing a number forks, pardon, "distros" > > > of Solaris increase. > > > > > > One of the things we as a community have often communicated is that we > > > abhore the Linux fragmentation and that we want a unified *platform*, in > > > stark contrast with the Linux mentality. > > > > Really? I don't abhore the Linux fragmentation, and I don't recall a > > consensus-community message where we communicated that at all. > > I do, various distributions, all incompatibile with each other, no > standardisation process - people wonder why there are no commercial > applications and hardly any third party hardware support on Linux - > thats the elephant in the corner of the room.
Your kidding right? Oracle isn't a commercial application? And that was just off the top of my head. I won't touch the hardware support. But I don't think it's as dire as you claim. Third party hardware support is probably better on Linux than on OpenSolaris. I'm not saying having so many distributions is a good thing, especially when they all seem to implement things a little differently. But let's face it, the kernel is the kernel (that's Linux after all) and that's mostly compatible between distributions. And if you don't want to deal with the fragmentation, you don't have to. Pick a distribution that suits you and deploy it. It seems to work for companies that run RHEL or Suse. Different strokes for different folks as the saying goes. The more distributions of OpenSolaris hopefully equals into more adoption of OpenSolaris and that can only be goodness imho. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
