In my OpenSolaris t-shirt collection, I have one with the slogan: "Innovation happens everywhere"
I'm not sure this is *entirely* true; Solaris 10 was a massive nexus of innovation that has proliferated out to other operating systems over the last decade. Frankly, there's not much else been happening in systems development. >From what I can see, between the cloying boredom of Linux monoculture and the dead hand of POSIX "standardisation", systems have stagnated. Even in illumos, we're largely doing a bit of light gardening - a bit of weeding here, a bit of pruning there, replanting the odd bush. But no real landscaping is being done. Which begs the question - is systems innovation done and dusted? Or is there more to come? And if there is more, what sort of new features are wanted? At which point I open up the floor to anyone who wants to contribute. (Note: I'm not talking about a gaps analysis. We [illumos] need more drivers, more applications ported. We already know that, and it's just copying, not innovation. So there is an interesting subject there, but if someone wants to follow that then please create a new thread.) Cheers, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T83f198c8597cf8e3-M120241295215f3f1fa5cb2c0 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
