-----Original Message----- From: Ken Gunderson [mailto:kgund...@teamcool.net] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:44 PM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 17:32 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > A couple of thoughts: OSX is a dreadful wrong example. If you polled 1 > million Mac users and asked them 'what OS runs under the hood?', my guess is > 95% would have no idea what you are talking about. Secondly, throwing vague > statements out about the 'shortcomings of linux' is at best non-helpful, and > at worst discredits you. I am a Software Engineer, and it irks me to no end > to have to retain N different tool/command sets in my memory for no good > reason. Whether you like it or not, Linux (and to a lesser extent, the > various BSD dialects) are what most folks know and are comfortable with. > Presenting them with yet another flavor of Unix, with a command/tool set > that is too distant is going to result in the person walking away and > settling for redhat/ubuntu/debian or whatever. I kind of hinted at this in > an earlier post - if I didn't have to use OI or some flavor of OS to get ZFS > for my SAN, I would have gone elsewhere like a shot. BSD and Linux are > pretty close when most of the commands are considered - OS is much less so, > and that is what is going to relegate it to a niche system unless something > changes. And no, I'm not an opposing fanboy or basher, just a realist... But... OI DOES have ZFS. And Linux effectively does not. Hence viva la' difference because had OI copied Linux it would not either. *** Sigh. This was 1000% of my point. OS command/tools are different enough from BSD/Linux that I'm really not interested in learning a whole new way of doing things, but I've had little choice due to the ZFS issues. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
