Sorry for bottom posting here but it seems appropriate here.
On 08/23/15 08:43 PM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote:
And, speaking of OpenSXCE (from which one can apparently obtain a
working version of Firefox 37) -- there was a huge amount of
discussion on this mailing list a while back about OpenSXCE. I do not
want to re-awaken those sleeping threads, I truly do not want to read
any more postings about whether the man who gave us OpenSXCE is
irredeemably and irretrievably antisocial, or whether it is moral to
donate money to someone whose political sympathies lie with people who
blow up schoolbuses. I just have one question, which is, why do
people care so much? As far as I can tell, OpenSXCE is a
closed-source OS, is it not? I recall seeing a whole lot of postings
where people were pleading with the man who gave us OpenSXCE to open
up the source, and he was refusing, and please let us not reopen the
debate about whether his reasons were intelligible, but am I right
that OpenSXCE is currently closed-source? If so, why would anyone
want it? Just because it has Firefox version 37? Is Firefox version
37 really so much better than Firefox 17.0.11? It seems to me, that
if I'm going to run a closed-source OpenSolaris-derived OS, it may as
well be Solaris. I'm running Solaris 11.2, as I said before, and
"zpool upgrade -v" goes up to 35, including things like encryption and
sharing with inheritance, and "zfs upgrade -v" goes up to 6, which is
multilevel file system support, I have no idea what that is but it
must be wonderful. I understand not wanting to run a closed-source
OS, but if you're going to, shouldn't one prefer Solaris? What am I
missing?
Jay,
I think you are asking yourself the wrong question. Its not what you're
missing. IMHO, the right question to be asking here, is what is (feature wise)
important to you.
For me, from the roughly 2 dozen different Solaris based distro's out there, the
majority are focused on x86/x64. And most couldn't care less about Sparc. But
I do, and that weighs in as I decide what to run.
I'm sure that there are as many different opinions out there as there are people
using and developing Solaris based distro's. But Sparc support is an important
one for me. YMMV.
Jerry
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