> The problem is one of target audience. OpenSolaris > isn't a wholesale > Linux replacement - that is, it's not intended to do > everything that > Linux does, nor be used everywhere that Linux is. > People get confused > n that. In many ways, OpenSolaris is more like the > various *BSD OSes - > we have a good niche, where our limitations are > minimized, and our > strengths reinforced.
Oh boy. Where do I start? OpenSolaris, at least according to David Comay & Co., is going for Linux / GNU crowd directly, hence the forced-at-all-and-any-cost replacement of System V utilities to GNU userland. And in that OpenSolaris fails miserably, because modifying GNU tools to support everything that the STANDARD System V tools support is a tremendous amount of effort. The colossal failure of OpenSolaris is double: GNU/Linux people aren't happy that it's not Linux and demand more features, Solaris people like myself aren't happy that it's bastardized to the point of not functioning like Solaris any more. Failure on all fronts. I just hope that people come to their senses and ditch OpenSolaris and go back to making SX:CE (which is about to be discontinued) the Solaris 11, the best OS on the planet. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
