On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, with OpenSolaris 2008.x, I think you'll see far more software > packaged, and secondly, far more of it will be up-to-date.
That may be, but I have been hearing that for the better part of a decade, so I'll not hold my breath. > Second, given the prevalence of support contract attach rates from vendors > such as Sun, RedHat, SuSE, and others, it's easy to conclude that even in > the server market, pre-packaged binaries are the norm for most of the base > operating system. The question here is what is "the base operating system". > Finally, I stand by my comments that most users don't care about being able > to recompile vendor software (as that would imply it is no longer supported > by the vendor once they do so). Again, what is "vendor software"? And I am fairly certain that everyone who chooses to strip the superfluous cruft out of the bloated "kitchen sink install" that seems to be the preferred norm for developers and technical writers, or who chooses to use their own customized build for security/speed/features/what-have-you, is well aware that the resulting software is not going to be vendor supported and is quite capable of supporting it themselves - the OS and hardware will be, but not the software. fpsm _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
