On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:08:40 -0600 "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008 9:42 AM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It just so happens that GNU/Linux is one of those > > > platforms from which > > > certain evaluations are drawn. > > > > Yeah well, I can tell you that it would have been much more useful to draw > > from operating systems which got things right, like HP-UX, and IRIX in > > particular! Even FreeBSD has features that would be desireable in > > OpenSolaris. > > > > I'm not sure what we could learn in terms of developer accessibility > or approachability from dead or dormant platforms. FreeBSD is far from "dead or dormant" platform. And quite frankly, the more Sun fan-boy posts I read in this thread, the less psyched I am becoming about Open/Solaris. I dedicated quite a bit of time reading various docs, etc. before I spent much time following the lists, but now that I have, my current impression is rapidly becoming more along the lines of; "my god, what a mess....". A week ago I had 99.9% decided to use Open/Solaris as platform for our next project. Now I'm 99.9% decided that a more prudent approach may well be to "give it another year and see what shakes out in the wash". I don't have a problem investing months gaining the requisite Solaris expertise. But I do have a problem _if_ that time subsequently becomes wasted effort because Open/Solaris becomes a Linux-esqe hodge-podge of buggy code. Thank you and have a nice day:) -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
