> mindset: > a habitual or characteristic mental attitude > that determines > how you will interpret and respond to > situations > > While OpenSolaris has made great strides in the > actual product, the stated goal > was to compete with the "linux" market. On this goal > OpenSolaris has failed > miserably. If a linux product was introduced with no > way to add packages, it > would have a fix released directly or indirectly in > less that 24 hours. > In this case the fix is known and the OpenSolaris > team has failed to release > same, leaving the community in limbo until they are > good and ready to ship. > > Clearly the absence of an ability to add content is > a major flaw! > > This is the Microsoft model not the Linux model and > if you hope to compete you > must be responsive to the community needs or the > community will simply walk. > > n a personal level I think the team has done a great > job, they just need to get the > "linux way mindset" and let the "Sun way be a little > more responsive". Yes pushing > out a single fix is time consuming but it is the > linux way. It is noted that this > is a preview and I agree it is but it is also a > preview of what we can expect from > Sun/opensolaris in regards to support and > responsiveness.
Call it a stupid question if you like, but _what_ are you babbling about? Anybody can create an SVR4 package and distribute it (see e.g. sunfreeware.com and blastwave.org). I suppose anyone can do the same with the new IPS stuff if they get some docs. In a real sense, the whole repository model has existed for quite some time for Solaris; Sun just wasn't distributing Solaris that way. Indiana is supposed to give that approach a whole-hearted effort. We'll see. But there has never really been a technical limitation. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
