I think this is a very important conversation to have (and that is why
I have been lurking all day).
To me OI/OS/Solaris's major advantage is the uptime and predictability
(when I sit down at a sol10 derivative I know what to expect, and you
can expect me to type 'bash'), and ZFS. Out of those three I would say
#1 ZFS, #2 Uptime, #3 predictability.
What is missing? Packages and updates!!!! When I suddenly decide to
try KDE, I want to be able to do it. When I want to install R and R
commander or RKward I want to do it. When I hear about Oracle and want
to move my MYSQL databases to postgresql I want to just be able to do it
(well I could do that, but I am really busy at the moment, but then
there is the CF connection on their end that may not play well with
postgresql...).
So to be constructive, as soon as I get some time (after Christmas) I
would like to make sure that R, R commander, and when KDE comes online,
RKward packages work and are up to date for OI. That is the least (and
probably the most) I can do for this great project. I hope may other
people do the same for their programs of choice and need. I think that
will make OI exactly what everyone wants. Luckily the real guts of the
OS already exceed anyone's expectations. Particularly on
multi-processor multi-core massive ram boxes.
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