At this point, it is clear you guys were not paying attention
to the contents of the thread. The disagreement is over the
community having the ability to work on a branch that is not
stable. All of the Solaris releases would be on a stable branch
that has the exact same interface stability
On 7/31/05, Shawn Leard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been involved with Linux since it was first available as a development
only
release. This length of time predates Solaris and extends back into the SunOS
days
so I feel I am in a position to offer good feedback.
It is early on a
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 06:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No; I don't think that, though I'd expect much of the unstable
work not to happen on OpenSolaris .org
actually, I'd hope that opensolaris.org and/or genunix.org would provide
some way to publish/host work-in-progress (distinct from stuff
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 06:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No; I don't think that, though I'd expect much of the unstable
work not to happen on OpenSolaris .org
actually, I'd hope that opensolaris.org and/or genunix.org would provide
some way to publish/host work-in-progress (distinct from stuff
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
On Jul 29, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote:
RTF I am telling you, point blank, based on both my experience within
RTF the open source community and my research background in software
RTF architecture, that OpenSolaris will fail to achieve the goals set
RTF by
I think that you hit the nail on the head with that one. But that is
ancient history. No one in the OpenSolaris community ( or Solaris
community if there is a difference anymore ) is living in the past any
more.
Dennis Clarke
Director and Admin for blastwave.org
IHMO, in order for OpenSolaris to
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 17:27, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Don't forget that StarOffice is now included in Sun Solaris 10
Solaris 10 includes StarOffice 7 (based on OpenOffice.org 1.x). There are
quite a few differences between OOo 2.0 and 1.x.
This message posted from opensolaris.org
Openoffice.org already provides a pretty decent (and current) port.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Almost all the Linux distros have their own OOo packages. But, wait. How many
Linux distros are there competiting against each other?
Perhaps this is one of the biggest differences between Solaris and
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Dennis Clarke wrote:
down anytime soon. I feel that Rich Teer would be hunkering into his
chair and saying to himself ha, Dennis has another opinion breaking
out of the gates, this will be good!
You know me too well, my friend!
When Dennis writes tomes like this, who
