Congrats on the new project! A quick business-case question for you: is there a way you might offer something reasonable in return for some financial support / donations from the community? There are a lot of us who depend on OpenSolaris, and are frustrated by the lack of updates, bug fixes, etc. This is, as you say, like an insurance policy. And especially if, going forward, the community coalesces around this. The (free) advice I've gotten here on this forum, for example, blows anything I've ever seen elsewhere (Linux, in particular, not even thinking about the monstrosity from Redmond) out of the water. For those of us who are building infrastructure around OpenSolaris now, a free version that will be maintained and updated and bug-fixed is an important investment in the future, so we aren't orphaned.
Would community contributions now speed the process, and possibly lead to a full-fledged distribution? Or are you guys already all set as far as money goes? And is there something you might offer those of us who can pony up some reasonable amount of cash to help you developers along? Secondarily, is there any possible way you can talk to NVIDIA and get CUDA support running with this? That would be an enormous watershed for some of us who do GPU computing for scientific work. I need a robust filesystem and management (ZFS is my only choice now), and it's painful to have to keep Linux around mainly for CUDA. That would be huge, if you guys could swing it somehow. Thanks so much for doing this!! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
