On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> The real problem is that OI has no community---just people who contribute > almost nothing (of course there are brilliant exceptions...) and who are > always critical about this and about that. I think partly this is because there's a very high barrier to entry. For example, last I heard building the complete system from source still required access to a closed-source, non-publicly-available compiler. Documentation is scattered and much of it is out of date. I can see why a new user, even one with coding experience, wouldn't want to wade into that. The situation is slowly improving, but it's starting from a culture where builds were handed down from an elite few, and that takes time to change. (Partly this is also a difference between the "cathedral" model vs. the "bazaar" model. A lot of what makes OI and FreeBSD attractive in terms of consistency and stability comes from the cathedral model, which also tends to result in slower development.) > As about the drivers, why don't you work on the new driver? Kernel drivers are a pretty esoteric area in any OS, and doubly so in OI. I don't think there have been very many community changes to the drivers handed down from Oracle. -- D. Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington GPG key fingerprint: 0DB7 4B50 8910 DBC5 B510 79C4 3970 2BC3 2078 D875 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss