Hi Glynn, I have to agree, there are probably many ways that Solaris could, and can now, do things better than Linux, as my document shows there are plenty of areas we have a long way to catch up. My recommendations are based on the fastest route to levelling the playing field.
While playing catch-up is not the ideal place to be in, as mentioned, there may be some ways to do things better than the Linux community is doing them at present - and this should come from further, detailed, investigation into the specific areas by a project team(s) - in some ways we are in the "hindsight" position that the old saying refers to - so let's use the "benefit of hindsight" that we have to our advantage - this has certainly happened with SMF, where we took the time to do it correctly, and is also likely to happen with networking too if the Network Auto-magic project does things right by fixing things at the OS level. We also though have to be mindful of the way that the community is heading, if we "fork" from them we need to be aware of the fact that the best solution isn't always the one that wins out in the end - as can be seen over and over in opensource projects, but also in commercial projects, just look at the state of DVD formats right now - if we do go a different direction, then we need to be able to stick with it and evangelise it. Darren. Glynn Foster wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:28 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > >> So not is it a good general document of where things stand on the >> desktop, it's an *excellent* suggestion list for any new projects that >> you might like to pick up. There's heaps there, and the Sun desktop team >> are starting to look more closely at putting resources to some of them. >> > > So one of the sobering comments I got from this was that we're reaching > *way* too low on some of these things - rather than just 'catching up', > what do we need to do to make things 'better', and fix some of the > broken stuff that even the Linux community are struggling with. > > I don't have any specifics, but I think when we start investigating each > project, we probably have to look further than what's currently out > there. > > > Glynn > > _______________________________________________ > Desktop-discuss mailing list > Desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
