[oi-dev] Resignation as OI Lead

[Andrew M. Hettinger]

Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote on 08/31/2012 10:43:14
AM:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, garrett.damore at dey-sys.com wrote:
> >
> > So then, I have just a single question:  What is the compelling
> > reason for doing all this effort?  Why not just load up Ubuntu on
> > your desktop (or buy a Mac, or even run *cough* Windows) and run
> > illumos bits in a VM?
>
> This position you advocate is a very low-performing one and not very
> reliable either.  It is much better to run the inferior OSs in a VM.
>
> The so-called "desktop" is a way to interact with the OS using a
> graphical interface.  It is not necessary for it to directly support
> idle social applications like "Skype".
>
> On hardware I have here, I find OpenIndiana's "desktop" to be quite
> performant.  I also find Solaris 10's aging "desktop" to be quite
> performant.  I find the "desktop" to be less performant on Linux
> systems like Ubtuntu because the focus there seem to be to consume all
> available resources with new effects and exotic graphics which do not
> contribute to getting things done.  It has not taken me long to learn
> that Ubtuntu is so frightfully complicated that its developers do not
> quite understand how it works, and they have not even resolved the
> long-standing randomly-occuring bug that the system ignores requests
> to shut down and reboots fail to properly initialize the audio device.
> I have also had Apple hardware and OS here but it suffers from issues
> particular to Apple's social culture (which bears some resemblance to
> Oracle) and it is difficult to recommend that someone depend on it for
> long term use.
>
> Current OpenIndiana is satisfactory for most things that I need and it
> only lacks ready-made packages for Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice,
> and the available Flash plugin.  If detractors do not get in the way,
> forward progress will resume, and these packages will surely appear.

These 3 things need to be done, but there are no bug/feature-request for
them I could find. I'll add them, If there are no missing dependencies,
I'll even go ahead and take the FF one.

>
> Bob
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