On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Tim <t...@tcsac.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Volker A. Brandt <v...@bb-c.de> wrote:
[...] >> > 3) The educated/smart Linux users. They know about the differences >> > and they are able to decide whether they like to use the Solaris >> > tools with full Solaris feature support by default or whether >> > their default PATH should habe /usr/gnu/bin first. >> > So why by default put /usr/gnu/bin in front for them? >> >> I think only the third group of people are really interested in >> trying out Solaris/OpenSolaris. So it's really a toss-up: Linux >> types can be expected to fix up their path; so can we Solaris types. >> >> But as others have rightly pointed out this discussion should really >> take place on some advocacy list. > > Of course, but it does help to generate some discussion within the various > projects full of people who don't subscribe or really care about the > advocacy list but are directly affected by their decisions. It's far easier > for someone to say "here, look at this discussion" than to say "I promise, > there's a bunch of people who really want this, they just don't subscribe to > this list". I don't think I have ever subscribed to an advocacy list in my life. If important decisions like changing the default toolset for the next version for the OS are only discussed there, I'd never know about them until they were implemented - and that would result in a lot of very annoyed calls to support and my Account Manager expressing my displeasure over. Chasing the Linux crowd at the expense of the long term Solaris base makes no sense. That holds true whether it is shelving and torpedoing Solaris x86 in order to please non-technical "analysts" on Wall Street who think that in order to survive as a business that you "must have a linux solution", or changing the default toolset (without notification) from the expected native tools to external tools in order to "make OpenSolaris more user friendly and familiar to the Linux crowd". fpsm _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
