OpenSolaris Community Poll!
04 Apr '05 - 02:58 by benrWhat is OpenSolaris to you? I propose that we try to discover what each of us wants from OpenSolaris. I would greatly apprecatiate the opinions of anyone who has one, whether your a current or potential developer, fan, user, open source dev just keeping an eye on it, who ever! Post your answer in the comments of this entry and add any explanation or remarks you have. This is a completely unofficial poll.
Choose from the following answers, or supply your own, which best describes your primary interest in OpenSolaris?:
- OpenSolaris is a robust and full featured open source replacment for Linux.
- OpenSolaris provides a new conduit to contribute code for inclusion into the official Solaris(tm) product (Solaris11, etc).
- OpenSolaris provides a conduit to collabortively enhance and add functionality for the benifit of all OpenSolaris users.
- OpenSolaris is a way for me to get early access to Solaris code updates way before I'd normally see them.
- OpenSolaris will serve as a reference to allow me to better optimize my code.
- OpenSolaris is a professional and/or academic resource for study.
- OpenSolaris is just another open source OS, just like Linux or OpenBSD.
- OpenSolaris will build a new foundation for a community dedicated to Solaris.
If none of these fit at all, tell us what you want most from OpenSolaris. Plenty of eyes at Sun are watching guys, so make your opinions known. And if your an employee at Sun, put your answer in here anonymously, just because you work for Sun doesn't mean your any less a part of the project.
I hope OpenSolaris will allow for customizations beyond those possible with Solaris. Maybe getting rid of legacy stuff that shows up everywhere (Openwin, CDE, directory layout). I would very much appreciate it if some entity takes the core of OpenSolaris and manages to come up with a light and fast userland around it.
Anonymous - 04 April '05 - 07:21
Right now, I see OpenSolaris as another OS choice in the Free/OSS market. But, that does include a community developing and supporting it. My primary reason for supporting, and using it is pretty much the same as Solaris is/was, it does the job, it works well, and it’s rock solid stable.Paul Greidanus (Email) - 04 April '05 - 10:16
One thing I like is that users can track what is happening in OpenSolaris knowing fully that out of it will appear a solid system they can use in production. It’s interfaces will be consistent, they will be documented, and they will be tested. It is often hard to claim these things about Linux distributions.Linux and the bleeding edge developments surrounding it are great, but I view them more as a fertile breeding ground for ideas rather than something that I would base a business on. Knowing that Sun is holding the reins on integrating the “bleeding edge” means I can be comfortable I won’t be jerked around from version to version of the system.
Anonymous - 04 April '05 - 13:46
For me: OpenSolaris provides a new conduit to contribute code for inclusion into the official Solaris™ product (Solaris11, etc).I can’t count how many times I’ve found things that need fixing or changing, and SUN can only do so much. If they’re willing to devote some resources to reviewing contributions or fixes to the codebase to be incorporated into the main product, it will make Solaris commercially much better and in turn ensure the success of OpenSolaris…
Shawn Walker (Email) (URL) - 04 April '05 - 18:17
I lean towards #3.” OpenSolaris provides a conduit to collabortively enhance and add functionality for the benifit of all OpenSolaris users.”
Sun may or may not utilize that functionality in Solaris, but anyone can do with it what they will.
John Clingan (Email) (URL) - 04 April '05 - 19:15
I’d say a mix of #3 and a bit of #1.Olaf Mersmann (Email) - 04 April '05 - 21:39
Primary reason would be #3. I think we will see some rapid “modernization” of the userland in particular which ought to make the OpenSolaris experience better for us all.Like getting rid of the whole /opt/sfw concept altogether and just shipping the right tools in /usr, and putting something like apt (blastwave?) in control of the whole packaging system. Yum!
Mark Mayo (Email) (URL) - 05 April '05 - 12:34
OPENSOLARIS IS A TRAPwithin six months of the code release they will be suing linux developers for alleged code theft (the inverse will not be possible because sun will never let the community write a solaris code fragment).
this entire effort has been crafted by sun legal as a last ditch to derail linux. lets face it, sun is at the hail mary stage…a SCO like response was inevitable. mark my words, the first lawsuit will come out within six months of code release.
b7j0c - 05 April '05 - 22:12
RE “OPENSOLARIS IS A TRAP”b7j0c == CrapFilledTeaCup at OSNews, I presume.
Anon - 05 April '05 - 23:04
Items 6, 7 and 8 on Ben’s list are uppermost in my mind.OpenSolaris also has the potential to bring more developers into the world of free software, including Solaris engineers employed by Sun.
Further, the project creates a model that may influence others who are considering a move from closed, proprietary products to free software development.
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