Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers]
Le samedi 20 mai 2006 à 19:43 -0700, Erast Benson a écrit : Nexenta is absolutely rock stable OS (thanks to legendary Solaris history) Solaris history is indeed legendary, but not for its stability. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée
Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers]
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:30:59PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 20 mai 2006 à 19:43 -0700, Erast Benson a écrit : Nexenta is absolutely rock stable OS (thanks to legendary Solaris history) Solaris history is indeed legendary, but not for its stability. Well, when you consider what dict(1) has to say about 'legendary': Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends when legends are: Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable You and Erast may be violently agreeing with each other. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
[Fwd: Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers]
---BeginMessage--- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:32 -0500, Michael Banck wrote: We had a pure NetBSD port before, but so far no non-glibc port got added to the archive officially (but that doesn't mean it would get rejected if it was of release quality). IMHO a glibc-based OpenSolaris would certainly be the better and more interesting option (but might take some effort initially). Do you really believe so? Do you understand that such a hybrid will not run any existing Solaris apps like you will not be able to run simple thinks like Macromedia flush player, JRE, JDK, Oracle, SAP, etc etc... Do you still wanna do that? Yes, IMO. [snip] GNU libc likely does not support Solaris-specific features. This is not a reason to not use GNU libc however, but is a reason to add the missing features. I understand that glibc was known to work on Solaris in the past, so it can surely be fixed up to work with some effort. In the long term, having GNU libc on GNU/Solaris is very desirable, and I wouldn't call it GNU/Solaris myself until it uses GNU libc. If you aren't getting Solaris-specific features (dtrace, etc ?), then what's the point of running Solaris? (Please don't think this a flame, it's a sincere question.) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEb7YNS9HxQb37XmcRAnZSAJ9lvT+eRUeI1h49XKB4h01O20oGvgCg7mt4 muS1l9raaQ8ZU9LxIcEeyNA= =zANb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC: Better portability for package maintainers]
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 20:32 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: If you aren't getting Solaris-specific features (dtrace, etc ?), then what's the point of running Solaris? Nexenta is absolutely rock stable OS (thanks to legendary Solaris history) and moving towards running any applications written for Solaris and OpenSolaris as is without re-compilation. All cool features like DTrace, ZFS, Zones, Kernel DDI, world class UNIX management tools are are available and integrated. -- Erast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
