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Gentoo Announces OpenSolaris Port
A reader writes:"According to this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, Gentoo is planning a port to Sun's partially-announced OpenSolaris. Something interesting to look out for, or just more hype from a developer often criticized even by Gentoo people for not looking before he leaps?"
I don't think anyone can be seriously worried about him pulling this off
I hesitate to ask, but what would there be to be worried about?
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I sympathise, but I can think of a couple of reasons:
Another good thing to come from Portaris and Gentoo on Sparc is that Jonathon Schwarz will evenetually have to acknowledge the contribution Linux has made to Solaris... ;)
This is where the serious fun begins.
Lamer! Unix is nowadays just a trademark. Linux/BSD companies could also buy the right to use Unix trademark if they wanted to. Why would they do so? That would make no sense.
Well, if it's been running for months on Sol 9 and 10, it's more than vaporware. Whether anyone uses it remains to be seen. If it replaces/augments the pre-built packages at Sunfreeware, it'll be a great addition to the OpenSolaris community.
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Okay, for a second, pretend you are a PHB (I know, it is hard). Do you want Gentoo (Huh? What's that? It is free you say? What?), or do you want Solaris (The incredibly stable, highly secure, Unix made by our good friends and reputable Internet Citizens Sun Microsystems, the genius creators of Java, the best programming langauge ever).
It is hard to step into the PHB shoes isn't it? But anyway that's your answer. If you don't have a PHB then maybe gentoo could be a viable server platform, but IMO that would still be pushing it. I use gentoo for a desktop and server at home, but I know that I wouldn't entertain the idea of such at work. Compiling from source is something I have the luxury to wait for at home, but work is a different story. I suppose there are those nifty new binary package servers, but I haven't investigated how they fit in with the rest of portage (mainly because I am satisfied with compiling from source at this point).
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Well, I'm not using Gentoo, but it's not just %10. I get _huge_ performance gains on my 3.2GHz Northwood if I use proper compiler optimizations. I'm using this workstation for audio related tasks. Ardour (Digital Audio Workstation software) and several plugin effects / audio encoders are 30-40% faster compared to precompiled i386 binaries.
Please, you could at least try to add some substance to your trollish post. Sun has a pretty good record with opening their products overall. Look at nfs, openoffice.org, netbeans, gridengine, plus the work they do with other projects like gnome, mozilla, various apache projects.
They're the first company taking their commercial unix os and making it opensource.
The only problem they've had opening up their products has been with java. And most real java developers don't wannt an open source java.
Open Source Java DAO Generator
No, it doesn't resolve dependicies.
pkg-get does resolve dependencies.
I installed KDE on solaris using the command:
pkg-get install kde
Of course, pkg-get is not the package manager that comes bundled with solaris, but it builds on it. I downloaded it from blastwave.org.
I was playing with Solaris 10 X86 (version Oct 04) a few days ago, but I went back to slackware for serious work because it couldn't access the USB ports (it supossedly has USB support, but it didn't work on my PC).
I found solaris was very fast (in contrast to its fame as slowlaris). I found it much much faster than Suse 9.0. I didn't run any real benchmarks, but, for example, the "Konsole" program started much faster in solaris X86 (I have to admit it starts fast on other linux distributions too). The general feel I had was that it's a fast OS. Too bad it wasn't able to use the USB ports.
If they improve their hardware support they could be a very good alternative to Linux for desktops.
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I've been willing to forgive a lot of editorial inconsistencies on the part of the /. editors (dupes, etc)... Overall they've done a good job, it's hard to manage such a large site with so much traffic.
But please, stop posting all this unsubstantiated slander and bashing in the stories. First there was the bashing of Six Apart when they were purchasing LiveJournal, without ANY evidence WHY Six Apart was bad or even why the author didn't like them. (Which directly conflicts with everything I've heard from personal friends on LJ's staff, who were all extremely happy about the buyout - Many of them who were contractors with LJ were promoted to full time when SA purchased LJ.)
Now there is a story directly bashing a person, not just a company, with no real evidence as to why that person would deserve such bashing. The mailing list looks to ME like the developer in question politely handling complaints from a rather whiny user.
Really, it's getting out of hand...
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?