Ken Mays wrote: > Hi Paul, > > What you may not have noticed in certain fronts is that Solaris developers > are already working on providing Sun's customers/users with the latest in > open source software and even some of the closed software you will find on > Linux/BSD today. > > Now, you won't find over 5,000-20,000 packages of open source software yet > for Solaris as of today. Yet, you'll find that we've been building a lot of > the packages that are either as good as their Linux/BSD builds or a bit > better in packaging. You'll find close to 1,500 open source packages over at > Blastwave.org as well as some work on the latest GNOME 2.12/2.14 which brings > in new versions of GIMP, Gnucash, Planner, Koffice and other products for > SOHO users. > > Like any project, it is knowing what the user wants or requires. Most of hte > maintainers of the various Solaris packaging ISVs are able to assist you if > they think a package can be built or needs further researched (or just point > you to the people involved in doing the work). > > Blastwave.org has been involved in game developement/OpenGL ports, Antivirus > and database development, and other software engineering initiatives with the > help of over 20+ system administrators/software engineers. I don't think its > a matter of getting a port done or improving on the process, just how full > the plate might be for some people. > Ken,
While I don't doubt that Blastwave has many packages available, and I have been using many. I also know that while there are thousands of packages available, there aren't any packages for accounting in Solaris. There are some Non-Gui web authoring for Solaris and one PCB, with a very old cryptic user interface that won't allow any pcb shapes other then square or rectangle. Maybe I'm just a small minority in my package requests, but I thought some sort of accounting software would be essential for most people. Basically I was asking that whatever new Software is requested, it should be reviewed and given a certain priority. Blastwave doesn't offer this. I though this forum was created for peoples opinion on how the open CCD should be formed or governed. All I saw so far was a battle between Sun and Blastwave. If the requirements agreed to in this forum are set, Blastwave or any other group can follow them. If Blastwave agrees to them, they may be the next CCD. Compiling for Solaris 8 isn't going to get my Nvidia graphics accelerated. Sunfreeware has the right idea, they maintain at least 3 versions of Solaris, but all packages are not available for all versions. The CCD seams to be even better, its packages have been compiled for the latest version, but all outdated. My thought though would be to compile to the latest version and keep current with packages. Basically this is all my opinion, but I think we all should contribute to what would make a great open CCD. Paul
