Daniel Bossert wrote: > I'm sorry to cancel my participation at the LinuxDay in Dornbirn. > I'm sorry to cancel this not because of sickness, but, as you probably > could see/read, because I can't "support" opensolaris at the moment. I > have problems to say yes to opensolaris. > That's sad...
> This not only because the wife's computer crashed somewhen. It's difficult > to install additional programs, and I have troubles to burn cds with > brasero and so on.. The trouble with burning CDs was that I could burn a > music CD, no prob. Then, when I wanted to burn another CD the next day, > brasero wrote that there were only 13min. music free on the (blank, > inserted) CD. I could burn the music, but there was nothing on it. With > k3b from the KDE project, everything is fine. And with linux now I can > choose a program, install it and it works. > Brasero does not burn the CDs itself but uses a backend, which I guess is cdrecord. Maybe the bug is not in brasero? Maybe you can try cdrecord directly to find out where the bug is... It seems you overall had many crashes. I'm running OpenSolaris on three different systems myself without any bigger problems. Maybe the root cause for most of your problems could be hardware/drivers related. > With opensolaris I can try compile programs with pkgbuild, sometimes it > works, sometimes not because of missing spec-files. > I'm planning to organize some learning session, where we will look e.g. at the pkgbuild environment, so that people can write their own spec-files. For those interested in IPS we will also look at SourceJuicer. I think it is important to get the number of packages up, but also not forget about quality. > So, what I will say is that I, at the moment, can't do advertisement for a > product which I have (many) problems with. It wouldn't be good for the > osol-project. Debian is working very well. > All projects have their problems, some are more visible, some are less. > I will draw me back for a couple of weeks now. I'm really sorry, but I > can't give support at the Linuxday with such a negative feelings. It's > better for the Linuxday, if there are fewer people who have positive > feelings then if one is there with a negative feeling. It would probably > destroy much. > I understand your point of view. But I would urge you to still join our upcoming learning sessions. Your feedback is also highly appreciated, and I'm sure you're interested to use a more mature OSOL at a later point. You don't have to fix bugs yourself, but finding/reporting them is also important. > Nevertheless I like the opensolaris project; but at the moment I have the > time to invest time for it, as I also do other things as computing. I will > also install the newest versions of osol on my Virtualbox on my laptop and > track the project. > Just join what you're interested in and give feedback to the community. > I hope you can understand my decision! > Sure!
