[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Open Indiana]

Just a little insight on the behavior of human race that i experienced at
home:
I had a laptop with Windows XP Home with Office XP that crashed at one day.
I had used the installer partition for something else, so I installed
OpenSolaris instead. 

My family (wife and kids) cried several days that it was completely
unusable. Accoording to them everything looked different and OpenOffice was
not usable at all. They had to search too long to find the things they
wanted. 

So at the end I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 and Office 2007. 

Now have ever looked at the differences between office XP and office 2007 or
between Windows Xp and Windows 7? 
They have never complained about anything! *sigh* 
  



-----Original Message-----
From: Blake Irvin [mailto:blake.irvin at gmail.com] 
Sent: dinsdag 24 mei 2011 18:13
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

As a longtime Solaris user I don't have to be convinced that it's better in
many ways than Linux.  But there is a reality that I've been forced to
embrace - developers don't care.

I'm in the process right now of helping a large development team make the
transition to a Solaris hosting solution.  I've spent hundreds of hours with
my operations team customizing our environments so that they 'look and feel'
like Ubuntu.

Why?  Because that's what the current crop of developers know, and it's too
expensive to train them otherwise.

My operations team knows that Solaris is great, and we plan to use RBAC to
give our dev users safe access to certain system features, but we don't ask
the devs to relearn their userland.

On of Apple's great insights, IMHO, was courting developers with a OS
userland that *felt* like Linux.  They did this for pragmatic reasons and
have seen an explosion of new applications. Do we see this for Solaris?  No.

I love Solaris and want to see OpenIndiana and related distros thrive, so I
suggest we give everybody what they want.

I propose an installer or configuration tool that let's a user choose either
a 'Server' (traditional Solaris) userland or a 'Compatibility' or
'Developer' mode (one that defaults to Linux/GNU binaries, sudo, GCC, etc).

We all laugh when we watch Ballmer's 'Developers! Developers! Developers!
Developers!' video, but Sun went out of business almost and MS is still a
giant.  Let's be willing to compromise in a smart way so that the OS we all
love can reach as many users as possible.


best,
Blake

(If anyone is interested in discussing my proposal in more depth, I'd be
happy to start a new thread or take this offline.)


sent from a Unix host smaller than my open hand.
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