On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 21:11 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:51:09AM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > 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? > > Erm. > > If Oracle and SAP are on your list of “simple things”, what then are large > complex things for you?
But I hope you still got me right. For me, all these "things" are existing applications which must run. The world is not 100% open sourced yet and we are in it, we are part of it, therefore my ideal OS need to be capable to run existing freeware and closed binaries as is without re-compilation. I want to run VMware, Oracle, Skype, SAP, Macromedia flush, etc, etc, etc. I want my Nexenta to run DTrace, BrandZ virtualization, ZFS, Zones without major re-design, etc, etc, etc... Once you accompany OpenSolaris kernel with GLIBC, you will kill this capability, you will not be able to run anything other than OSS compiled for your particular distro. That was my point. And isn't LSB is what GNU/Linux moving towards to? In OpenSolaris we have its Core which we following as a standard and I don't see any single reason not to do so. Now, I really think Fink was a good idea to begin with and sure Nexenta following the same idea and in many ways extends it. i.e. Fink capable to run Debian packaged OSS stack on existing Darwin core, while they need to trade off some design issues. Meanwhile Nexenta is the OS from ground to up, which helps us to make/design a lot of things in cleaner way and form. The fact that in Nexenta OSS porting efforts are minimized is not a coincidence... -- Erast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
