Sorry, but i don't really see the point.
Of course OS is different to Linux or BSD, but there are also
differences between them.
If you change from Windows or even Mac OS to a posix-like system the
difference might be the largest, but there are a lot of people who use
Linux on their notebooks or PCs.
If I want to run a server on OpenIndiana, because I want to use ZFS and
Zones, because they fit my needs, I only want a source, where I find the
information, how to partition the system, how to build a pool, how to
install a postgresql-server or something like that.
I think if you have a good documentation and/or wiki and a possibility
to communicate to the experts in a not to complicated way, the users
will use OI if it fits their needs.
Because OI might also not have the same use-cases than ubuntu, a
newsgroup-server or a maillinglist might be fine.
Tobias
Am 10.10.2011 23:32, schrieb Dan Swartzendruber:
A couple of thoughts: OSX is a dreadful wrong example. If you polled 1
million Mac users and asked them 'what OS runs under the hood?', my guess is
95% would have no idea what you are talking about. Secondly, throwing vague
statements out about the 'shortcomings of linux' is at best non-helpful, and
at worst discredits you. I am a Software Engineer, and it irks me to no end
to have to retain N different tool/command sets in my memory for no good
reason. Whether you like it or not, Linux (and to a lesser extent, the
various BSD dialects) are what most folks know and are comfortable with.
Presenting them with yet another flavor of Unix, with a command/tool set
that is too distant is going to result in the person walking away and
settling for redhat/ubuntu/debian or whatever. I kind of hinted at this in
an earlier post - if I didn't have to use OI or some flavor of OS to get ZFS
for my SAN, I would have gone elsewhere like a shot. BSD and Linux are
pretty close when most of the commands are considered - OS is much less so,
and that is what is going to relegate it to a niche system unless something
changes. And no, I'm not an opposing fanboy or basher, just a realist...
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