Rich Teer schrieb:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>> The only way to grow the community is to focus on people not already using
>> Solaris/OpenSolaris.
>
> At the risk of disenfranchising the current community? Great, so we annoy
> current users just to appease new users who might very well say I'm going
> back to Linux because Solaris isn't GPL?
Honestly - I don't think that there are so many people
who are so "radical" that they base such a decision
just on the license.
Rather the risk is, that they go back, because applications
(or the system at large) doesn't behave ("as comfortably")
as it does on Linux (cf. Compose, cf. keyboard layouts).
And also cf. Gnu tools. But thankfully, Sun is now shipping
important GNU tools in OpenSolaris. While those tools often
offer features which aren't standardized (as in Posix) or
aren't as stable, they often are more comfortable (eg.
optional coloring in grep, ls, ..., or tar, which you
don't need to give the z/j option to decompress .gz or
.bz2 files, just to name a very few).
>> From a usability perspective, the current defaults are problematic at best in
>> my view.
>
> A view to which you're entitled, but I disagree with.
You seem to be an oldtimer :)
> What's wrong with keeping the defaults that current Solaris users expect,
> and supplying a document to help those migrating from other platforms?
What's wrong with supplying defaults that work rather
well on other platforms (eg. Linux) and supplying a
document for "pros", which shows how to get back
"legacy" features/behaviour?
