(warning: Subject change) Joerg Schilling writes: > In 2003, I switched the the main > system at home to Solaris 9 x86..... [ snip ]
> - I need a decent debugger like mdb/adb which is not available on Linux > > - I need full control over SCSI error codes which is not available on > Linux. If I don't have this kind of control, I cannot develop programs > like cdrecord > > - Programs developed on Linux seem to have less initial partability than > those developed omn Solaris > > - Unstable interfaces in Linux make it hard to decide whether a problem > internal to Linux or made by me and one of my programs > > What we need to do is to tell this to other people and let the number of > people grow who use Solaris for development. Joerg, I thought these were some really interesting and important points about how OpenSolaris-based distributions are today a really great primary environment for software developers. There are other reasons too: DTrace, obviously, and I'd love to hear others who do multi-platform software development add to the list. There are certainly some pain points too (a few new interfaces to make porting easier to Linux/BSD have been pointed out). And it might be useful to have a place where developers who aren't contributing directly to the OpenSolaris codebase, but are developing software to work on OpenSolaris distributions can go. Rather than continuing the discussion on the general list, I'm wondering if there's a more appropriate home for it to help focus the discussion and make some progress (like contributing materials for the marketing community, articles, specific code to make the development environment better, and anything more we can think of). I notice the Immigrants community is a little quiet -- maybe they'd be interested in expanding their charter to specifically reach out to developers. Is there another community people think would be helpful for this sort of dicussion? On the other hand, I think developers are a really important group to reach out to, so maybe a specifically targetted project or community is more appropriate. There's plenty of overlap with other communities, but like the Systems Administrators community, a place to go to talk about the breadth of the topic rather than diving into the more detailed lists might be valuable. I'm not advocating a specific proposal yet; I'm just trying to test the waters to see what folks think, and if there's critical mass to start contributing to such an effort. So, what do folks think? Which of these sound useful, and which would you contribute to? :) liane -- Liane Praza, Solaris Kernel Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blogs.sun.com/lianep -- Liane Praza, Solaris Kernel Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blogs.sun.com/lianep _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
