OSNews

Perhaps you're right, although because of the WAY you expose your opinions I won't mod you up again (even if I didn't mod you down in the first place).

I can see the logic in your argument and I've seen how well it worked for FreeBSD guys.

Well, if that is the case, then I'd still love to see a Solaris variant, made by sun, using Sun's tools (even better if they customized a few of the things we use in the Gnu World, like DBus and other stuff) to deliver such a system in a Desktop-ready sense.

I don't really care about GNU userland, although some of the cmdline options of the Gnu stuff is great (at least compared to a few *BSD stuff, I have not much knowledge of Solaris, except for a workstation I used many years ago) ... more "user friendly cli" if you allow me to say

I also don't care about GPL, CDDL, BSDL, Proprietary-with-a-reasonable-price-and-not-attached-to-any-particular -hardware Whatever it is, if it is affordable and well managed I'd like and buy.

I just think it would be awesome to have a stable platform designed with some company's needs in mind, to take advantage of that company's Marketing division, R&D budget and the Power (even if it is not that big) to press a few vendors for more drivers supports or codecs or... you name it.

Long live Solaris, I hope you bring the fun of healthy competition back to the Open Source Desktop World.

BTW, slightly off-topic but, I am thinking in giving FreeBSD at my Desktop a new try. Can anyone talk about how does it compete with the things we've seen in Linux the last years (hal, dbus, udev, auto mounting usb devices on plug, hardware support for usual hardware (I don't care about exotic hardware)) ? It is a great system and I'd love to have it running as my 3rd or 4th OS.


Me back to cave now