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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. I didnt bother. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I tried to download it. Well, it wants all your information, which I wasnt even going to jump through their hoops.. After all, Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat and the rest dont make you do this.

    And the hardware support sucks, even for a virtualized environment.

    Simply said, Linux works better than Windows, and I enjoy it more. Better hardware support, better fun apps, and things Just Work.

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    1. Re:I didnt bother. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes, and MSWindows is posix compliant.

      Do you think that OpenSolaris lives in isolation from everything else? Hardware support on it stinks. Windows is better, yet even Linux trumps Windows.

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