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Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community

Posted by Soulskill on from the diverging-interests dept.

xtaski writes "Ted Ts'o, one of the earliest Linux developers, points out some serious flaws in OpenSolaris. There is a severe lack of developers, for one. Apparently, after 3 years, the OpenSolaris 'developer community' is still struggling to get the proper tools for developers to develop! Ted also points out some other flaws which make it clear just how disconnected the executives at Sun are from what's really going on in their 'open source communities.' He notes, 'It was never ... Sun's intention to try to promote a kernel engineering community, or at least, it was certainly not a high priority for them to do so.'"

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  1. Severe lack of...interest? by digitaldc · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...serious flaws in OpenSolaris. There is a severe lack of developers, for one. Apparently, after 3 years, the OpenSolaris 'developer community' is still struggling to get the proper tools for developers to develop!

    No developers or any tools?
    At least we won't have to blame another Solaris bomb on George Clooney this time.

    --
    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  2. Re:mirror by tytso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not so ancient Chinese saying: "It is not enough to install wp-cache2 and activate the plugin; you must go to options->wp-cache and press then "enable" button to REALLY enable wp-cache."

    Doh!

    (Once I actually really enabled wp-cache, my server seems to have been able to keep up, for now...)

  3. Wait by ISoldat53 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun has an OpenSolaris?

  4. Re:mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's working now ;-)

    WP-Cache should be renamed "In-case-of-/.-Cache"