On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:58 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've used SuSE 10.2 - if you're happy to avoid the bugs that you can fly > > a 747 through. Beta quality compilers, drivers and libraries. Crappy > > KDE/OpenOffice.org integration (specifically kslaves/openoffice.org) - > > its horrific - "ship first, hide bugs hopeing they won't get found". > > Suse is really funny. They claim that they need to "enhance" cdrecord in order > to get the quality level they intend for Suse..... > > I've seen Suse-10.2 on a IBM notebook, it was impossible to make their > cdrecord clone even see the CD/DVD drive of the notebook. A vanilla cdrecord > on the other side works out of the box even without the need to specify a > dev= parameter. > > Linux distributions got into trouble because more and more Linux users did no > longer buy Linux distributions but downloaded them from the network. This > caused pressure on the commercial Linux distributors. As commercial Linux > distributions are interested in revenue, they need "arguments" they can print > on glossy paper... > > In order to get these arguments, they are no longer interested in code > quality. Instead they are interested in marketing "facts". > > I am in hope this will not happen to Solaris.
*shrugs* I hope it doesn't turn that way. I doubt it will, however. There isn't this drive by Sun to 'take over the world' as there is with distributors, which is derived from the grass roots hatred of Microsoft. For Sun, Indana will go out there, people will use it, but I don't think you'll see Sun spend millions on marketing it to the great unwashed masses. You will be surprised, however, the number who don't want the latest and greatest bleeding edge - my mum is very happy with her SLED 10 SP1 - it isn't bleeding edge, but she can use it. As long as Indana focus's on stability and reliability instead of worrying if it has the 'latest' thing going for it, it'll hold its own - the problem will only occur if Sun thinks it can turn it into a mega money generating machines. So far, from what I see it, it will be part of a bigger programme. It'll be a customer winner/trojan horse rather than it being a money generator in itself. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
