> I'm using what would pass as junk hardware to many
> here.  Its older
> hardware and cheapo cards... but I've had to use PCI
> sata cards
> because OSOL does not recognize my onboard sata
> controller.

Believe me when I write that I completely understand your frustration, simply 
because it is my frustration also.

This has been a weakness of Sun's engineering for a very, very long time, as 
long as I've known Solaris (1994).

Excellent engineers, excellent engineering practices and processes, but NEVER a 
product that works 100%, with all kinks worked out.

Always phenomenal ideas, but never a 100% working product. About 75%, give or 
take, is what gets released.

Is new functionality needed?  Yes, of course. But for once, I'd like to have 
most of the bugs fixed and 100% working software, than 75% working software and 
tons of new functionality... because in the end, none of it works correctly 
when all put together.

Last week I wrote that it remains to be seen whether Sun's new religion of 
"release early, release often" turns out to be the correct path. Now, several 
kernel panics (b109, b110) and countless hours of hacking later, I'm really 
beginning to believe "release early, release often" is an approach Google 
should be whacked on the head for at least 10 times a day, and whoever copies 
Google... well, fill in the rest yourself.
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