On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, UNIX admin wrote:
I'm very much interested in an OpenSolaris distro which would be a next
generation of SOLARIS -- not next generation of Debian, Gentoo or
something else! In fact, just as Dennis Clarke would put it, "I'm
passionate about it."
Me too
But one thing th
> That's all great in theory - but it's not always like
> that - while there
> may be support for one version of a device, if that
> device gets up-reved
> the whole chipset can change (just look at how
> wireless drivers are
> these days). For Small to Medium enterprises it's not
> always possi
> Why are we trying to look ourselves up to Debian?
> The world of Linux, Debian has been almost completely marginalized, namely
> in favor of SuSE which provides nothing more than eye candy, and RedHat
> dominating Linux's share of the corporate market. Nobody even considered
> Debian until re
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:22, UNIX admin wrote:
> Look past the sentences and read the fine print. Read the blogs of the Sun
> executives. CDDL may not say it, but it is clear why Solaris has been
> released to the public. It's a purely political move with the aim to sell
> more Sun HW (which is
> On 7/21/05, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Actually, SuSE's RPM update system uses special patch
> RPMs that are
> not the entire software subsystem over again.
They were working on it.
> Possibly because of the "Linux community" there is a
> large set of free
> software available for any Op
> As for SGI, they have their hands full with IRIX. If
> you really want to have a real discussion of porting
> packages to IRIX versus Solaris/OpenSolaris when
> talking about SGI instead of "Linux" which is more of
> a kernel versus a distribution like Debian.
SGI ditched IRIX in favor of Linux
> Care to expand on that? I, and I'm sure others, would
> very much welcome
> the history lesson on what they've successfully done.
> FWIW, I think we
> should be doing this with Linux too, and many other
> communities out
> there - but you instantly want to dismiss them with
> every reply.
I did
>
>
> --- Bob Palowoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 15:17, Torrey McMahon
> wrote:
>
> > > This is a real problem when multiple copies of
> the
> > > same interface
> > > get dragged into a single processes.
> > >
> >
> > Interesting as I'm seeing this in the kde
> Without this ability to manage the evolution of
> shared components,
> it becomes extremely difficult to reuse them, because
> asynchronous
> development almost guarantees that a change to the
> shared component
> will break a consumer, and that multiple consumers
> rarely depend on
> the same ve
