On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Correct. Except that on GNU/Linux, there is no such thing as guaranteed > stability or garanteed forward / backward compatibility. And that's where the > practices significantly differ. > > You see, if you don't care about guaranteeing the above, then you might as > well go and just stuff everything in /usr; but if the software *isn't* yours, > like in the case of OpenSolaris, and your policy is to guarantee stability, > then you can't just go and stuff software from someone else into /usr, > because it might break other things and might bust your customers and/or > consumers. > > And for Solaris, such practice is simply unacceptable. And as long as that > remains the case, Solaris will have people like myself on his side.
Which is exactly why Solaris is an enterprise OS and Linux is not. It has very little to do with the technical merits of the OS, and everything to do with the design decisions of the Linux community/vendors. Breaking forward/backward compatibility is simply not acceptable without A VERY GOOD REASON. fpsm _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
