Sorry. I mean 'don't have', not 'don't know'. I really don't know how to turn off auto suggestion/completion on my mail client. It's real annoying.
---- On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:08:16 +0700 Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote ---- > I will adjust my attitude and expectation. > > BTW, I don't agree with you about Linux is junk. > > I don't know the authority of a SE like you, but I tell from my own > experience. > > Linux rocks and superior to any alternatives. > > > > > ---- On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:16:47 +0700 Jedi Tek'Unum <j...@jeditekunum.com> > wrote ---- > > > Perhaps I can say some things here that others can’t. I’m a totally > neutral party in all of this. I don’t use Illumos or any derivatives. I > simply observe this forum as a passive interest from my past. > > > > I’m a retired Software Engineer/Architect that used to work in the > industry in major computer vendors and ISVs on systems-level software. > Amongst a multitude of operating systems and many many *nixes, I started > with the Solaris precursor SunOS in the mid-80’s. Throughout my career I > always felt that Solaris was FAR superior to any other alternative and so > did most of my employers. That includes the broader free/open software > community of much of the last 40 years. 10 years ago you couldn’t have found > a bigger fan of Solaris and the Solaris community. But even then I had > departed the world of Solaris on the desktop/notebook in favor of MacOS. > > > > From my perspective, the tragic end of Sun has all but destroyed Solaris. > The efforts of a few to continue on with Illumos and derivatives has been > commendable. For some the results have been adequate for their own use and > warrants their further involvement. Regrettably, I am not one of them. > > > > I would suggest that people that are not coming from a previous Solaris > background are far beyond reasonable expectations if they think Illumos or > derivative is something that will broadly compete with other modern > alternatives. > > > > I personally think Linux is junk and I avoid it unless there is > absolutely no other choice - and that is always in deeply embedded > small-scale situations. I use FreeBSD a bit for some things (cloud server > and pfSense firewall for examples). I have a single home server still > running Solaris that I only use for our family storage (which will likely > transition to TrueNAS/FreeBSD at some point). Mac Pro and MacBook Pro round > out the rest of my daily environments. > > > > You’ve got to understand that Linux is successful because of inertia - > the mass of so many people and companies behind it. The reason most things > work ok is because of the many people who have a stake in it. Even the most > obscure embedded board gets Linux support first. That doesn’t make the > foundational technology any better - and in fact it is crap in many cases - > but it fulfills the “good enough” mantra of modern times. Despite its > apparent good looks to many, there is a pretty obvious cesspool in the > dozens and dozens of distributions each with their own strengths and > weaknesses and incompatibilities. FreeBSD is more organized and elegant in > many ways and there is a certain quality over quantity focus. It isn’t as > broad because it doesn’t have the same scale of community. > > > > Illumos and derivatives just don’t have the scale of community to support > the breadth of features (and support) that many people expect - which > includes you (and me). It’s not the fault of any in the community and there > are no bad intentions on the part of any of them. You can’t expect a few > people to give you the functionality and support of 10’s of thousands. I > wish the ecosystem was usable by myself but I recognize the realty. > > > > You’re never going to be happy with this situation (and it’s never going > to change) so I suggest it would be best to abandon it and move on. > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
