On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 09:00 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner writes: > > On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 23:57 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: > > > > But ultimately what is developed in OpenSolaris will > > > > end up in a payable > > > > product. > > > > > > Not necessarily. Features deemed fit for OpenSolaris might never make > > > it into Solaris. There is already code out there that is running on > > > OpenSolaris that didn't make it into Solaris, and might never make it. > > > It's not a 1:1 process. > > > > Thats pretty stupid given how badly Solaris needs attention in all > > areas. Given the current state of Solaris 10 - can anyone blame those > > who still think that Solaris x86 is being treated as the red head step > > child of the family? > > No, it's not "stupid." > > It's the difference between a source base and a distribution. > Distributors get to choose what they want to include in their > distribution from the given source base. It must be like that -- > otherwise, all of the distributions would be identical, and that'd be > a bit silly.
Incorrect - Sun could go, "hey, thats really good, we'll take the base from the opensource community, use the contacts we have with Microsoft, bundle Microsoft audio and video CODECs along with mp3/aac encoding - possibly even include a dvd player with it as well" voila, value added and differentiated from the rest of the pack. > That said, it's likely that many (and perhaps "most") of the things in > OpenSolaris will eventually be in some Sun Solaris release. Which > things those are, and which release will have them, aren't really > appropriate things to discuss here. They're business decisions. > > Instead, as those are commercial distributions you're talking about, > you need to contact the distributor -- sun.com in this case, not > opensolaris.org. > > In short, OpenSolaris != Sun. > > As for x86, I really have no idea what you're talking about. Not only > does Sun sell and support these sorts of systems, but most of us > (myself included) do our primary development on x86. I realize that's > a bit of a "works for me" sort of argument, but I don't see that the > linkage in your argument is as clear as you seem to think it is. Works does not equate to supported; Linux supports certain sound chips, but it doesn't mean that all the features or the features are properly supported. It runs on my laptop but features of the laptop aren't supported. There is a difference. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
