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[Jonathan Adams]

while "Kernel Mode Setting" is kernel related, it is of no significance for
distros running on servers.

while USB3 support is kernel related, it is of no real significance for
those specifying the servers with specific bits of hardware, USB just isn't
enterprise quality.

"OpenOffice/LibreOffice and some other tools like gimp 2.8.0" however are
definitely not kernel related.

Your statement "To me it would be a good idea to join forces to improve the
kernel as well as the user-land ..." is wrong, however, because there are
loads of changes that are being commited into the Illumos kernel,
improvements are happening all the time ... please don't diss them because
they are not the changes you want, or not necessarily very visible.

I would love all of the changes you've suggested to be implemented, and
have (in the past) some limited luck getting LibreOffice compiled, but I
don't have the skills to work with the kernel, or the time, and I will (at
the moment) allow the guys who are working on it to keep working on it.

Just my 2cents.

Jon


On 6 June 2013 14:40, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropoulos at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> >
> >Unless Martin is willing to maintain and push forward the huge OS/Net
> >codebase on his own, Illumos is realistically the only game in town.
> >He's a talented fellow no doubt, but building a distro and maintaining a
> >kernel are not in the same league.
> >
>
> Hello everybody,
> It is no secret that Solaris users form a very small minority. What
> is really disappointing is the fact that we have a number of distros
> that even fewer people use. To me it would be a good idea to join
> forces to improve the kernel as well as the user-land. There is no
> USB3 support and adding it to Solaris is not as "trivial" it is for
> other systems :-( Also, there is no Kernel Mode Setting which means
> that the open source video drivers cannot be used. In addition,
> we need OpenOffice/LibreOffice and some other tools like gimp
> 2.8.0, etc. Thus, instead of spending time and energy on building
> different distros, let's "endorse" 2-3 distros and concentrate on
> the development of the kernel. After all, the various linux distros
> are possible because some people work really hard on improving
> the kernel.
>
> A.S.
>
>
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> Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece
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