[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:54 AM, Allan Echavia Registos wrote:
> Kumusta Christopher:

Mabuti, ikaw?

>
> On 5/25/2011 8:28 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 08:20 AM, Allan E. Registos wrote:
>>> +1.
>>> Be friendly to Linux users(me a Linux user), as these are the people
>>> that will often convert to BSD and Solaris/OI. I think most
>>> enterprise data centers nowadays are a hive of heterogeneous
>>> technologies.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I came from Linux over the OpenSolaris too but I did not expect people
>> to hold my hand. Being friendly should not mean being willing to hold
>> hand of critical whiner. Even within Linux you get people who won't
>> touch certain distros because the toolchains are different and that's
>> usually because they were not willing to learn about those new
>> toolchains/system scripts
> It is true that there are people who doesn't want change and want to
> stay in their comfort zone. But If you invested much time in that
> environment(you have many applications <inhouse / commercial ones>
> running on your current platform where ERP was the most notorious), then
> even if the new OS with promising enterprise features doesn't worth the
> switch, for this exact reason, we still have Windows XP installed. But
> that new technology can be added in the mix as long as it is relevant.

There is only so much one can do on that score. wine works on 
OpenIndiana but like all things wine, not every Windows app will work. 
But I guess that is why we have to go gcc for future OI dev...way too 
much stuff out there with gcc'isms and Sun Studio taking some time to 
support all those extensions...


>> but you won't see deb distro guys going out of their way to make
>> things familiar for rpm distro users and vice versa.
> You need to support both if you build Linux systems to customers.
>

But that is not the problem of the distro makers. The developers are the 
ones that need to learn the packaging system used by the distro and what 
is/is not available in the system provided packages. But I suppose the 
Indian guys (Belenix?) might get a better bait trap for developers if 
they pull off their rpm based distro. Oh, did I forget to mention that 
they do KDE too?