> >Unless Martin is willing to maintain and push forward the huge OS/Net >codebase on his own, Illumos is realistically the only game in town. >He's a talented fellow no doubt, but building a distro and maintaining a >kernel are not in the same league. >
Hello everybody, It is no secret that Solaris users form a very small minority. What is really disappointing is the fact that we have a number of distros that even fewer people use. To me it would be a good idea to join forces to improve the kernel as well as the user-land. There is no USB3 support and adding it to Solaris is not as "trivial" it is for other systems :-( Also, there is no Kernel Mode Setting which means that the open source video drivers cannot be used. In addition, we need OpenOffice/LibreOffice and some other tools like gimp 2.8.0, etc. Thus, instead of spending time and energy on building different distros, let's "endorse" 2-3 distros and concentrate on the development of the kernel. After all, the various linux distros are possible because some people work really hard on improving the kernel. A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
