On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > Interesting views from Uwe below ... food for thought.
"Put a stop to all the nonsense" is exactly what is needed. Then I may just, barely just, believe that OpenSolaris is being taken somewhere other than to the butchers ;) ~b > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Uwe Dippel <udippel at gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle to buy Sun. > To: opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > [i]Thankfully, no one is working on an Ubuntu clone at Sun. The goal of > the OpenSolaris 200x releases, as I see it, are to create a modern OS > distribution that innovates using OpenSolaris technologies such as > DTrace, ZFS, and more.[/i] > > Yes. For the last 2.5 years I was hoping so much that OpenSolaris > could come flying off. I have a double-boot install, and always > preferred the OpenSolaris partition. It simply is - IMHO - more > polished and more elegant. I have put up with a bunch of shortcomings > therefore, even invested in RAM (rather cheap, but still, Ubuntu runs > easily from 1 GB, nevermind). I didn't mind to lose installs and > having to redo them, finally Nevada is a moving target. > I put up with sendmail losing mail, despite of most qualified help in > here (search the archives if in doubt), I have tried my best to > connect to my access point through wire and WiFi using nwam - and > given up despite of a lot of very qualified help in here (search the > archives if in doubt), I have given up to have my single WiFi-dongle > coming up as rum0 (this is a minor inconvenience), I have given up to > expect to mount and copy files to FAT32 reliably and enjoyed the most > qualified help in here (search the archives if in doubt). I have given > up on the idea to run ZFS on USB-drives, because in bad circumstances > (yanking it), the pool might be irreversibly lost as confirmed by the > authorities in here (search the archives if in doubt). I have known > how to work around not being able to print properly from Gnome > applications to A4, aside from editing and modifying the respective > ppd file in a specific, not disclosed manner, (search the archives if > in doubt). I didn't mind booting > ?to Failsafe after a certain percentage of power outages just to > recover the boot archive until I received a personal workaround > (search the archives if in doubt). > Again, Nevada is a moving target. Though, what did get on my optimism > w.r.t. the future of the system that I ran and encouraged others to > run, was that many of those little bugs - actually the larger part - > have not been tackled AFAIK. Yes, there was and is plenty of invention > going on in OpenSolaris. But based on a system riddled with little > diseases here and there, and diseases that inconvenience the average > user, all is not well with stacking more inventions on top of sick > code. > Recently, I was informed that I should not run the system on 32 bit, > and definitively not expect reliability without mirrored drives > (search the archives if in doubt). I'm already using nvidia chipsets > due to their low power draw, without any additional cards (6150, > 7050), single strips of 2 GB (consuming less energy than 2 of 1 GB), > single (green) drives. The 2 x 2 GB that I need for OpenSolaris > already form a thorn in my eyes. If now the elitism is great enough to > require me to buy 'quality hardware' (search the archives if in doubt) > and run another disk, sorry, but then I'll take out one of the 2 GB > RAM strips, abscond the idea of buying and running (and powering) > another hard drive, and preferably boot to that Efficient Eazel on the > other partition. Because it does all of those salient points further > up; and more importantly, without upgrades of RAM and disks. And when > I will miss my OpenSolaris, I can always start it in VirtualBox. > > What does this have to do with Oracle buying SUN? I still, still, have > slight hopes of Oracle stopping ?all the nonsense that we have seen > happening in here, and building a great Solaris 11 (whatever it will > be called by then) on a basically sane and Free code base. > > Uwe > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org > > Regards, > Moinak. > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
