> 100% agreed. I think, if you put the number of posts > and contributors in relationship to those with > financial support from Sun, or an employer-employee > relationship, empirical evidence might evolve that > supports my lines. But this is not the most relevant > thing.
You are implying that if those employees were laid off, they would stop working on Solaris, and that Solaris development would therefore be severely impaired. Since we have no hard data which states how many Sun employees would keep working on Solaris on a completely voluntary basis, your implication is again an assumption at worst or speculation at best. > What I actually would like to point out, though: > Ubuntu seems, IMHO, better at getting the basics > right: network, printing, installation (though the > intermediate graphical installer, around nv70, was > definitively superior. No idea, why it is gone now.) The installer is most likely gone because it warranted further development. > Oh, yes: hardware support. Empirical data: just > search the archive for plenty of ubiquitous machines, > on which OpenSolaris HANGS the installer- or live-CD. But there the counterargument is the hardware compatibility list. Again, I'm not aware of any database containing hard data on systems which hang with the Ubuntu live media, which makes comparison hard, actually it makes it impossible. > As long as reading - worse: writing - any other file > system other than UFS or ZFS (plus a hackish > vfat-support), there is nowhere to go. You could argue that having ZFS, alternative filesystems aren't necessary, and aren't a priority. You could also argue that there are so many FS choices on GNU/Linux because GNU/Linux doesn't have ZFS. > As an example. > As a casual observer, this project simply looks to me > as if nobody actually knew where it was heading. > While everyone fiddles on his/her own little things, > to make them happen. Actually this "project" is composed of many different projects of their own, some of which are comparable to ONNV itself in size and complexity. If you look at the projects page, and look at the ONNV change logs, you will see what I mean. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
