I remember an episode of House M.D. where the *doctor* was going through these five stages after finding out her patient has cancer after seeing her for a cough! :)
I'm still thinking positive thoughts, and waiting for my laptop to get a replacement AC adapter, where I'll be using b134 again... I sometimes think myself as weird for liking Solaris sometimes, but a UNIX system of some kind that I have to occasionally tweak with seems more fun where everything works and everything is VANILLA (points in Ubuntu's direction...) I may have started on Linux, but I want to stick with Sun's legacy! :) On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:27, Paul Gress <[email protected]> wrote: > Denial, Anger, Depression, Bargaining, and Acceptance > > > 1) Denial > > At first when Oracle purchased Sun there were multiple people saying Oracle > would stop Opensolaris. The community simply didn't believe them, this > couldn't be true. > > 2) Anger > > This I believe just happened last week after the announcement of the OGB > threatening to dissolve itself. There were lots of subscribers making a lot > of noise, myself included. > > 3) Depression > > We've all been going through this, waiting and waiting, just wondering when > a new disto will come. > > 4) Bargaining > > This phase is just starting. Just what can we get. The source is still > being updated, maybe we can start a new distro. > > 5) Acceptance (Future, time hasen't come yet) > > OK, we finally got a community distro were all happy with, not exactly the > same as what Sun had but good enough to move forward. > > > > > A little humor is needed. > > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
