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Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 24-05-2009 20:47:53 +0300, "C. Bergström" wrote: |
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>> Ummm.. my/our goal is to directly compete with sol10, sxce and |
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>> opensolaris (if you consider the latter real competition).. Why mess |
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>> with gentoo-alt-prefix + solaris when you can just use just about any |
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>> ebuild from the main tree on top of the whole core? I'm not doing bulk |
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> Because Solaris 10 is stable :P |
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> (apart from not needing root, or being able to wipe out everything added |
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> by simply rm -Rf-ing a single directory...) |
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Considering we're in discussions with the Open Group about becoming UNIX |
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certified along with being used on NEBS compliant hardware in at least 1 |
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CLEC I think we'll classify as "stable" in the near future. In fact I'd |
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bet that the service entitlement you get from large vendor X wouldn't |
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compare to having the source for everything and a community to back the |
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bug fixes. Or is that more or less not the reason that linux has gained |
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popularity over the big iron OS of the past? (This is not to mention |
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the WORM/COMSTAR and various other patches we're porting over that |
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aren't in sol10) |
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Also.. prefix is worthless for circumstances where you want to have core |
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system files that need to be 64bit and aren't.. libhal was a good |
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example in the past.. (which they do provide 64bit for now thankfully) |
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This is on top of if you're actually doing any real development of the |
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core os/zfs.. You'll probably need to patch zdb or other things.. |
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Building onnv-gate by hand if you've ever done it is less than fun. |
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patching dozens or hundreds of servers/zones under svr4 packaging is |
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less than fun. |
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</rant> |
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