Yep. And the Illumos crowd is damaging their own image fast. Between
attitude problems costing them overall credibility (delusions of grandeur,
talking about "market share" and "shareholders" in the context of a free
open-source software project) and technical credibility (talking like the PC
is the end-all, be-all of computing), Martin and his work come out smelling
like a rose.
-Dave
On 06/06/2013 10:04 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> Martin's distro, unfortunately, is the only one willing to support Sparc, so
> he is going to pull a good sized chunk of the community based on that alone.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 06/ 6/13 08:40 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
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