On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:45 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 04:19 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > > I do wonder why we need to have a different GNOME desktop? Well, I > know > > why we do it (i.e., JDS), but I'm not sure why we should. It only > diverges > > us from the mainstream, and makes things different. Seems better to > > leverage the mainstream GNOME project to me, and be the same, the > Ubuntu > > uses a stock GNOME desktop, AFAICT. > > It doesn't really, Ubuntu have a whole ream of local patches just like > we do, and other distros like SuSE have a lot more. They arguably do > a > better job of getting theirs upstream, but they also have the > advantage > of being Just Another Linux. It often takes longer to get the GNOME > community to buy into Solaris patches, particuarly if they also happen > to change the way things work on Linux.
Or some of the time the patches made are for components that are going to be completely re-written :) > > It confuses me that zfs has been out for > > about a year and a half and we don't see our desktop folks doing > that type > > of simple integration. Being able to take snapshots, list > information on > > zfs filesystems, or getting the status of a zpool, those are all > things > > that should be available for the user. > > I agree, and we have had people working on ZFS desktop integration > prototypes on and off over the past couple of years. But as always > it's > a question of resources and priorities, and as yet it just hasn't been > made a high enough one for us to drive to completion. (There's > nothing > that says Sun has to do the work, of course.) Hmm, thats assuming one doesn't want to actually make Solaris a success either on the desktop or for the Sun Ray. Imagine, end user in 'very big corporation of america' deletes file, then is able to roll back with a click of a mouse - no interaction with the system admin needed. There are a heap of scenarios I could possibly rectum pluck where the benefits to Sun for 'customer selling points' would be alot higher than a sole individual. Mathew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
