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ForkForkPosted Sep 23, 2004 22:05 UTC (Thu) by larryr (guest, #4030)Parent article: A Sun engineer on Linux
I agree with the author to the extent that I think the Solaris kernel developers should put effort into providing the changes the customers want, and should not be beholden to Linus to have their changes accepted into the Linus kernel. What I would like to see happen is IBM, Sun, and other vendors, maybe RedHat, Canonical, Novell, create a fork which has enough momentum to displace the Linus kernel as the one most often used, even by those who typically build from source. I would have much more confidence in that consortium to provide more of what I as a customer want. I do not think a Sun-only fork would be widely used, so if that is their only choice besides continuing with Solaris, I think they should continue with Solaris. Larry
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Fork Posted Sep 24, 2004 0:54 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link] I would have much more confidence in that consortium to provide more of what I as a customer want. So what is it that you want? Don't tell me it's the lock-in. ;-)
Fork Posted Sep 24, 2004 1:15 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Oh great, design by committee. Now that would be sound engineering?
Fork Posted Sep 24, 2004 16:07 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030) [Link] Oh great, design by committee. Now that would be sound engineering? To the extent the Java Community Process is design by committee, I think it can be. Larry
Bad example Posted Sep 24, 2004 19:21 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] If you think the JCP produces good engineering, then we have hardly a common ground to start discussing (I don't). Anyway, let's look at it from another point of view: if you trust vendors (better than developers) to produce your version of Linux, then go directly to them and use some vendor-maintained kernel like RedHat's or SUSE's, which are heavily customized. Nobody forces you to use kernels from Linus. Or, why not, shell out some $$$ and use Solaris x86.
Fork Posted Sep 25, 2004 18:12 UTC (Sat) by trshash84 (guest, #20778) [Link] Um, what exactly is wrong with the kernel to the extent that you want tofork it?
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