> This forum has become rather ugly and not a > particularly nice place to visit these days. And as > other posters have noted, this forum is now regularly > ignored by much of the code writing community because > it is too "noisy."
In partial defense of the situation, opensolaris-discuss _is_ pretty much the none-of-the-above list. All the other lists are more specific in what they're meant for. So even if this group were low noise enough that serious and busy people could check it (probably in addition to other list(s) more relevant to their work or needs), it would still be a catch-all. I'd go so far as to say that when there's a lot of excrement around, it's better to have most of it in one place than to have it everywhere. I would suppose that it'll settle down after awhile, once either some of the prior level of communication is restored, or people come to accept that they simply won't see it in these channels. [...] > I don't know if anything is at risk because of the > recent ugliness of the forum but, regardless of any > consequences, the tone of "contributions" to this > forum have made this a much less friendly place to > visit. It's now a bit like watching gang wars. It's > sad. So, have at it boys, I'm moving to the 'burbs. > > walter You're the judge of your needs and likes. Still, if all the orderly people leave the neighborhood, it's not hard to guess what will remain. As for me, I'll stick around for awhile yet. I've used almost every OS I can think of except VMS, and this is the one I understand best and certainly one of the top few in terms of stability and server features (and a nice enough desktop on compatible hardware). Which doesn't keep me from enjoying my Mac, or fondly remembering Apollo workstations or even ISPF edit on a mainframe. As long as I don't have to say nice things about Windows (except that it has taken advantage of a little of its generous room for improvement), or pretend that the Linux crowd is a bunch of architecturally gifted engineers (even if it does pretty much what its participants intended), I don't have a problem with any of the assorted lot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
