On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Bill, > > Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:28:32 PM, you wrote: > > BR> I say this as someone who has no vested interest in Blastwave, > BR> Sunfreeware, or the companion CD but I still don't see the point, the > BR> "community" already has a more than one "project" to get pre-built open > BR> source software. I still can not see a reason to create yet another > BR> project unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the existing > BR> projects. I have no animosity towards Keith's proposal, just scratching > BR> my head and still wondering why it is even needed. Solaris/OpenSolaris > BR> has SFW so everything else you are on your own for anyway. > > I myself would prefer open source software based on libraries already > included in Solaris (like OpenSSL) - something I can't get with > Blastwave.
I would too but sometimes the libraries are out of date. Solaris, for good reason, has a slower release cycle. So for me having the extra libraries is not that big of an issue because disk space is cheap but my time isn't, I just want things to work. > BR> Besides Dennis has said something like this several times in this thread > BR> alone: if you think blastwave sucks then join the group and help fix > BR> things. > > I heard that already from some Linux guys - why bother with Open Solaris - > there's already Linux, if there's something wrong come and join us and > help fix things... > > Fortunately there's no one answer to all problems. Let me explain my position just a little better. I am not saying that there "should not" be another group, just that I don't think we really need one. In my mind Blastwave, Sunfreeware, and others are addressing the issue well enoungh (sure there can be improvement, I know they aren't perfect). My opinion is let those projects take care of the outside software and the OpenSolaris project (and Sun) should concetrate on SFW and let others like Blastwave, Sunfreeware, and the OpenSolaris Distros handle on they want to do things. Let me just add that this is just my opinion of how I see it and I WILL support the new project if that is how things go. Bill rushmores.net
