UNIX admin wrote:
> 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.
>From the experience of the recent layoffs, we have some data that some
former Sun employees do still keep volunteering their time, but not all
do. I don't know that anyone's even tried to make a formal count (and
it would be hard for anyone but Sun HR to do so without breaking privacy
rules).
>> 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.
The SXDE installer ("Dwarf Caiman") has morphed into the
OpenSolaris LiveCD installer ("Caiman") - the further
development is happening there.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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