On 01/11/2007, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > >On 01/11/2007, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > >> > >> >Solaris is Solaris; OpenSolaris is a separate thing. To imply > >> >OpenSolaris is Solaris is a mistake no matter which distribution > >> >represents it. You also shouldn't make implications without claims. So > >> >far, Indiana has done nothing permanent that causes deviation from > >> >Solaris or OpenSolaris origins (unless stagnation matches your > >> >definition). > >> > >> Shawn, offending Solaris developers and OpenSolaris developers in a single > >> sentence will not help you get your point across. > > > >I can't help it if folks are easily offended. I'm just stating things > >as I see them. If that's offensive, it's the choice of the person > >seeing it to be offended. > > > >I'm human, I can obviously be wrong. However, I don't see anything > >incorrect about what I stated. > > Really, you say that "Solaris" and "OpenSolaris" are stagnant and > somehow Indiana is not. > > I find the changes in Indiana rather cosmetic and small compared > (and pretty much also-ran/copy-cat) when compared to innovations in > Solaris/OpenSolaris. > > I think you're being offensive and I don't think I'm easily offended.
Well, sorry, I don't agree. The majority of folks see Solaris as stagnant. Just look at the posts on various websites, etc. Now with that said, you read far more into my words than what I intended. Of course, how could I expect otherwise since I didn't qualify my statements? What I intended was that the *user experience* on Solaris has remained fairly stagnant. Sure Solaris 10 was a great leap forward, but in the time since then, it's remained fairly static. The GNU/Linux, OS X, and other worlds have long passed it by in user experience, etc. So I guess to a certain extent you're going to have to be offended by a lot more people than just me. I'm well aware that some of the projects that Indiana is benefting from have been in development for a long time. However, to any user, it presents some of the most visible projects and things that have been either worked on recently or for a very long time. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
