On 08/11/2007, John Hawk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mindset: > a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines > how you will interpret and respond to situations > > While OpenSolaris has made great strides in the actual product, the stated > goal > was to compete with the "linux" market. On this goal OpenSolaris has failed > miserably. If a linux product was introduced with no way to add packages, it
Begging your pardon; but not such official goal has been established of yet. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/ > would have a fix released directly or indirectly in less that 24 hours. Your statement about adding packages is also incorrect. Only SVR4 packages are unable to be added. IPS packages, I believe, work fine. > In this case the fix is known and the OpenSolaris team has failed to release > same, leaving the community in limbo until they are good and ready to ship. No limbo exists here; the source code is available. > Clearly the absence of an ability to add content is a major flaw! > > This is the Microsoft model not the Linux model and if you hope to compete > you > must be responsive to the community needs or the community will simply walk. > > On a personal level I think the team has done a great job, they just need to > get the > "linux way mindset" and let the "Sun way be a little more responsive". Yes > pushing > out a single fix is time consuming but it is the linux way. It is noted that > this > is a preview and I agree it is but it is also a preview of what we can expect > from > Sun/opensolaris in regards to support and responsiveness. Your criticism is unwarranted. I see posts all the time about Ubuntu, et al. that ship with what some people consider "glaring" bugs that should have been resolved before shipping. I don't think you are adequately aware of "Developer Preview" or what that means. Debian "Testing" releases have often been equally broken (for days a time too) so your argument about the Linux world somehow being infallible is not constructive. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
