Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-15 Thread Edward Martinez
> eam1, every post you present is old stuff and it has > been asked before that you stop posting these. > > It's been almost 18 months since a RELEASE has been > made (code likely frozen in Feb 2006 and it is almost > Aug 2010). Almost every post now on discuss is stuff > about the (non)future of

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/13/10 12:16 PM, John Plocher wrote: +-- Please join the distro community and help make this happen. Joerg, Moinak and the rest of us will welcome you with open keyboards! Like you said, there are a few obstacles in the way of doing a completely open distro right now (closed source I18

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Paul Gress wrote: [...]> > While I believe Oracle is gung-ho about Opensolaris, I don't believe it's in > sync with our views. I believe they would like to close the source if they > can. I'm starting to look at it this way. > > * Oracle is smart > * If I were Or

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Gary
eam1, every post you present is old stuff and it has been asked before that you stop posting these. It's been almost 18 months since a RELEASE has been made (code likely frozen in Feb 2006 and it is almost Aug 2010). Almost every post now on discuss is stuff about the (non)future of OpenSolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Cyril Plisko
> While I believe Oracle is gung-ho about Opensolaris, I don't believe it's in > sync with our views.  I believe they would like to close the source if they > can.  I'm starting to look at it this way. > I think they can do that easily. After all the source belongs to them and they decide whether

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread John Plocher
+-- On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Paul Gress wrote: | So I think not a Fork is required, but a "Cloning" is required. This new project | should be called maybe "Desktop Clone-aris"  Where what we do is try to | compile the source and recreate the missing closed binaries. +-- Please join the di

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Ken Gunderson
As has become pretty obvious to most of us, I'll share a few characteristics and let what's left of the old school community draw it's own conclusion: 1) Recent join dates. 2) Never post anything technical, nor demonstrate any technical insights or actual technical knowledge. 3) Always pro Ora

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Gress
On 07/13/10 07:08 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: I still think Oracle is gung ho about OpenSolaris and still ironing things out. this docs may seems old but they are dated 2010 and has the oracle banner on them. I see it there is still interest. quote: This is just one update on Oracle's freq

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: > The community is tired of having to guess Oracle's intentions. This FAQ means > nothing. > Please stop posting every single URL that mentions OpenSolaris/Solaris in an > attempt to paint a rosy reality. And the non-stop paranoia, pessim

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
> I still think Oracle is gung ho about OpenSolaris and > still ironing things out. this docs may seems old > but they are dated 2010 and has the oracle banner on > them. I see it there is still interest. > The community is tired of having to guess Oracle's intentions. This FAQ means nothi

[osol-discuss] Oracle Solaris: General FAQs: seems from july

2010-07-13 Thread Edward Martinez
I still think Oracle is gung ho about OpenSolaris and still ironing things out. this docs may seems old but they are dated 2010 and has the oracle banner on them. I see it there is still interest. quote: This is just one update on Oracle's frequently asked questions (FAQs) for its newly a