[oi-dev] OI project reboot required

[Alasdair Lumsden]

Andrzej,

Your vision is pretty much the same one I had. The challenge is this:

"Existing releng process and contribution process prevent anything from
happening though. I would like to help to change that."

How?


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> On 2013-05-10 02:19, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> There is little "commercial future" in the desktop for Linux
>>> distributions as well yet almost all of them have a graphical desktop.
>>>
>>
>> I would be entirely *unsurprised* if distro vendors like RedHat and
>> Oracle simply *ditched* their desktop support at some point in the future
>> -- its clear to me at least that folks aren't running those distros on the
>> desktop.
>>
>
> Well, Oracle does provide and promote SunRays, and while admittedly most
> of their market targeting is about VDI and access to virtual
> Windows desktops, there are many requests on the SRSS mailing list
> about adding support for server-side Ubuntu as the SRSS terminal
> server, because certain apps only exist for Linux and tunneling
> of connections makes their graphics lag, and RHEL/OEL/Solaris
> desktops are argued to be not so user-friendly (I have no opinion
> on this, to me X11 is a means to display more characters on screen
> than possible in a text mode).
>
> Not that Oracle seems to care to address that demand, at least
> publicly - just recently they began supporting versions 6 of RHEL
> and OEL as server-side Linuxes. But there is certain demand for
> non-MS/Apple desktops, and one linked to commercial interest as
> well. I am not sure if OI/illumos can ride that tide, though.
> Maybe with some other terminal client technologies (ThinLinc,
> Wyse, etc)?..
>
> //Jim
>
>
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