Analysts familiar with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Indiana say that as early as this week the company could reveal plans to revamp the OpenSolaris operating system by incorporating key pieces of Linux software.
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Member since:2005-07-08
I have read more than my share of posts here and other places talking about how various people cannot use Solaris for one reason or another, and it is arrogant to point that out as a possible reason why so many Linux users want Sun to change Solaris is simply to suit them?
I am sure that similar comments can be found in any number of forums (including this one) where Windows users would like to see a more user friendly face put on Linux, and the response by certain members of the community would be no different.
So am I really all that arrogant, or is it because I am willing to voice my opinion which might piss a few people off? And that is different from any number of people who post here how?
Member since:2005-07-24
Robert,
I was afraid that my post might have come off as calling you arrogant. That's my mistake. Not really what I intended.
Windows certainly *is* perceived as being more user friendly than Linux. And in some ways it very much is.
In others, Linux actually does better in an objective sense. But people like what they are familiar with, and for most folks, Windows is it. (Not to mention the unnatural degree of ISV support.)
So please focus on the part of my post which is about drawing upon each other's strengths rather than fighting over differences. Because I *really* *really* *really* do think that is important.
And as big a Linux fan as I am... believe me... I am solidly in favor of the Unix way more than anything. And if I felt that Solaris might be a better fit for my campaign, I might be inclined to make the jump sooner than I should. Or... I might find, in restrospect, that I had clung to Linux, out of familiarity, longer than I should have.
I really don't know.
But I *do* know that petty conflicts are detrimental to us all.
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2005-07-24
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In what context? No one has bothered to even describe what this machine that we are talking about is going to be used for. Is my grandmother going to be using it to read email? Is it in a high school computer lab? Is it my own home desktop system... or server?
Robert, as much as I respect you, I have to kind of agree with the OP's assertion that some Solaris guys have a knee-jerk reaction about these things.
My position is that for general purposes, both the Linux world and the Solaris world could benefit from bits on the other side of the fence. And it really all depends upon the context.
Sun would like to see Solaris competing in arenas outside its traditional usage. And so would I. Because, at heart, I'm an advocate of the Unix way of doing things. Linux simply suits my purposes best today.
But I have huge respect for Sun (and Scott!) for holding their ground, and for believing in... for standing behind... Unix, while HP and even Silicon Graphics were pushing Windows.
And, Robert, I sincerely hope that arrogance, from either side, does not drive another wedge between members of our Unix world. Because we have had enough of wedges. They've cost us, dearly. We can't afford any more.
And I sincerely hope that we do not have to endure even one more of them. Especially now that Sun is walking the walk. And quite stylishly, I should say.
To my fellow Linux fans? Let's not go out of our way to start a fight.
Edited 2007-07-13 21:01