> An operating system that is 14-months-old is a relic > and as good as dead. > > Look at my other post showing release dates of other > operating systems and only OpenSolaris has had no > releases. > > Oracle specifically said in an article they would not > include some technologies in OpenSolaris they develop > for Solaris 10. This indicates an R&D budget for > Solaris 10, so I'd question the need for R&D on > OpenSolaris, when some of the OpenSolaris > technologies aren't included in Solaris 10 (e.g., > Crossbow). Solaris 10 makes money, so R&D makes > sense, but to spend capital on OpenSolaris doesn't > strike me as something Ellison is willing to do.
No. It only indicates that Solaris may include proprietary drivers (particularly those licensed partly or entirely from others that aren't willing to use the CDDL at a price that Oracle is willing to pay). I doubt there is a distinction between Solaris and OpenSolaris when it comes to R&D, although I would imagine that Oracle might spend less money than Sun did writing drivers for hardware they don't sell. > Of course there will be some who say OpenSolaris is > dev for Solaris 10. Really; then I'd like to have an > explanation about why Oracle explicitly states they > are doing R&D on Solaris 10 (preceding paragraph), > when that should be done in OpenSolaris. Isn't > OpenSolaris dev for Solaris 10? Seems a waste of > money to do development on both. Seems like either you're parsing words pretty fine, or maybe it costs something to back-port new features to Solaris 10. (or at another guess, that the Oracle folks tend to talk in terms of what they _sell_ rather than what they give away...but that may not be a detailed description of how they make it) The fact that there are kernel-level features that have not been back-ported to Solaris 10 suggests that at least some development _is_ taking place in OpenSolaris. Reading ARC cases and release notes suggests that _most_ new features appear first in OpenSolaris (the code, not necessarily the distro), and then get back-ported to Solaris 10. >From what I have heard since even before OpenSolaris, the practice is that even bug fixes (unless _only_ applicable to something older) first get done in the development code, and then get back-ported. The OpenSolaris _code_ gets constant attention. The _distro_ obviously doesn't get updated as often as people would like. Waaah. > Waiting for the next OpenSolaris release is like > waiting for your ex-wife to come back. It isn't > going to happen, and even if it does, what about the > future, and will she stay? So take the latest code, build it yourself (yes, major pain in the a$$), and roll your own. Or, if your point is that people aren't _giving_ you stuff fast enough, go have yourself a nice pity party; imagine the sound of the world's smallest violin, playing sad songs just for you. Or, since the the most recent statements appear to have said 1st half 2010, wait two (maybe three if you count days rather than months) more days and see if there's either something released or at least some updated word. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
