Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th May 2008 21:48 UTC, submitted by irbis
Yesterday, the OpenSolaris team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, the fruit of Project Indiana. The first review we found was published over at Blogbeebe, which is overall fairly positive. At the same time, Practical Technology believes that "OpenSolaris has finally been released just in time to die".
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RE: Sun is a bit strange
by Matt Giacomini on Wed 7th May 2008 02:47
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RE[2]: Sun is a bit strange
by kaiwai on Wed 7th May 2008 03:27
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"People are well aware of the possiblity of vendor lock-ins and OpenSolaris just seems a bit like the first free fix.
What vendor lock in are you refrering to?
I have not seen a modern piece of software that runs on OpenSolaris that can't be compiled for Linux also. "
Mate, obviously you seem to have issues finding code or reading sentences. He has said that by OpenSolaris existing it stops vendor lock in. That vendor lock in being software written in the opensource world that only compiles on Linux. Want proof? go grab a generic wine tarball and try to compile it on OpenSolaris out of the box - it won't compile.
Lame, up until decently, same situation - it didn't compile unless you used patches (3.98beta8 works without patching). Code is still being locked into specific operating systems - even when that code is opensource. Programmers using Linuxisms, gcc'isms and any other possible ism I might have forgotten.
As for the value of OpenSolaris, it is nice to do something CPU intensive and not find that it is impossible to surf the internet because the network connection dies. Yes, I've had happen with Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora - its pathetic; are we supposed to believe that in 2008 one shouldn't multitask?
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I like some features of Solaris .. but the whole package leaves a lot to be desired. I think trying to position Solaris as a linux wannabe with a few cool features ( Dtrace is nice, ZFS is blingy although it uses Vistaesques amounts of RAM ( like 0,5 GiB ) ) and like 1% of the drivers is not wise.
People are well aware of the possiblity of vendor lock-ins and OpenSolaris just seems a bit like the first free fix. Once you are hooked it will be hard to switch .. this kind of fragmentation does not help anybody.