[It seems that all I have today are questions...] Ian Murdock wrote:
It's more the developers (largely in open source projects) deciding what "the standard" is as a side effect of writing their code.. How do we adapt to the new reality?
Some thought experiments, building on Mike Kupfer's mail: Given that Linux is incompatible with Solaris in many ways, yet ISVs and customers happily use both, is portability across both platforms really a key issue? In the same light, Posix/SUS/XPG/... all seem to talk to compatibility across alternate branded platforms, yet I don't believe that Linux claims to be one of them. Is this whole standards branding thing more of a Solaris compatibility issue, distracting us from the assertion that some customers no longer care and would rather have "just like Linux", whatever that means :-) ? Both Linux and Solaris have features to die for; conversely, both have features I'd rather die before I'd use them :-) Is there a best-of-both world that we could/should strive for? Or is "being different" (from either camp) a kiss of death? What would be the practical downside of doing a Major release of ON/Solaris/OpenSolaris? Especially if, with Zones and Xen and ... customers could have both the existing Solaris2.10 and the new Solaris 3.0? -John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
