I really do hope it it like you say. Nevertheless, I have t say it is very difficult to work this way. I am talking OpenSolaris (but many things apply to Solaris as well).
1) No roadmap (do you have seen one recently) 2) Support for "new" hardware is still in development branches (new SAS 2 controllers from LSI in svn_134) 3)svn_134 has still lots of bugs/issues (at least in the GUI): NIC configuration is a pain; better go via command line 4) some key components (i.e. ramdisk implementation) have severe performance issues (a ram disk running at 500MB/s on DDR3 1333 is slower than working on a striped physical disk set; same ramdisk on Linux on same hw runs at several GB/s) We all know no perfect software is there (the perfect one is the one that never comes out....), but short releases cycles (with roadmap) allow community to test and contribute and to make things more stable and better performing. Instead no svn releases after 134 are out there and no idea if/when they will come and what they will contain... Ok, I know one can go, grab source, compile and test: this makes test base much narrower and more error prone... If you develop applications relying on certain OS features (such as ZFS, RAMdisk, COMSTAR, ...) you expect to test those features and give feedback on bugs/improvements/perf issues, not to start developing/debugging those features (you can, but again, how may will have experience to do this ? Developing a kernel driver is a complete different story from developing an application layer...different experience, competencies, dev languages, ...) I really do hope the story with Solaris/Opensolaris goes on, but I must admit (and I think all the posts in the newsgroups confirm this) that working this way is very difficult for us and -as far as i can see - for many others. I am not talking about having the latest fancy GUI with 3D effects (even if maybe this is important for the ones who adopted Osol as a serious desktop replacement) but also having new fundamental server hardware support. If everything will be tied up to Sun hardware....we are back to a proprietory solution for custom hardware, the Apple way I think most of folks here around do not appreciate very much.... Anyway, we all have to sit down and wait for feedback to our knock knock at Oracle door: we do not know if anybody will open and what the'll tell But-sadly- time is running out, Oracle ..... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
