I understand it fine. I'm simply stating that I'd rather use FreeBSD if it weren't for the fact that Sun hates FreeBSD and won't support or help them with anything, yet they take tons of code. VirtualBox is now under Sun's control, and knowing them it'll never ever be ported, they're rather port it to Amiga or Haiku than FreeBSD. Sun has really been jerks in the past with FreeBSD, and there's just as much a market for it as Solaris on servers, especially those considering OpenSolaris. FreeBSD is more mature in organization, Solaris technology has a leg in some areas, but I'm stating that I'd much rather not be tied to Solaris. I'd rather stick with OpenSolaris than to go back to Linux, they have been around quite a long time in various forms and still haven't got their act together, and certainly here like being on UNIXy systems. With Sun management maybe some of the glaring issues will be fixed by year's end with (Open)Solaris, but at the moment I'm certainly grinding teeth dealing with any OS, they're all in limbo right now, all have glaring issues, FreeBSD for me has the least, but I just can't make any solid commitment to anything except Solaris since it does the job, albeit with issues that don't taste good.
James On May 29, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2008, James Cornell wrote: >> >> OpenSolaris is newer than FreeBSD. FreeBSD 6 might be comparable to >> OpenSolaris in terms of age, those guys definitely have a lot of >> overhead. > > Perhaps you are not understanding by what I meant by age. > OpenSolaris was in planning stages in 2004 and did not even receive > the Solaris source code until June 2005. In comparison, the FreeBSD > project has been around since 1993, which gives it a huge > organizational head start over OpenSolaris. After this many years, > the FreeBSD project is like a well-oiled machine. > > Solaris itself is quite mature (Solaris 2.0 released in June 1992, > but with Sun lineage back to 1982, and AT&T lineage to the dawn of > Unix) but OpenSolaris is still in fledgling stages. OpenSolaris is > doing quite well given its relative youth. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080529/cbd99331/attachment.html>
