On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > On 18/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> > > wrote: > > > John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I dunno about that... Solaris already does pretty poorly in small > > > > environments, as it's become much more geared towards servers through > > > > time. I think it's a much more suitable task for the OS to run > > > > alongside AIX on big hardware where it shines, rather than small > > > > hardware where you can hack it in to working to some degree > > > > > > This seems to be a result from the fact that Solaris is conrolled by Sun > > > and notyet by the community. > > > > Solaris is a commercial product that I would always expect to be > > controlled by Sun; not by the community. > > > > I only expect the community to have control over OpenSolaris; and even > > then, only to a certain extent. > > The OpenSolaris community needs a way to add features to OpenSolaris and to > prevent things from being removed even against the vote from Sun. Before this > happens, OpenSolaris is not yet emancipated.
The OpenSolaris community already has such a thing. I have not yet seen Sun prevent adding or removing anything with this mysterious veto power that you speak of. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
