On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:06:53AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Zfs isn't the only interesting thing about opensolaris and Sun does give > you the candy if you take the whole package. It is only the Linux terms > that keep you from adding the parts. Solaris has an entirely different > attitude about backwards compatibility which makes the mention slightly > on topic for this conversation. I can't, for example, imagine them ever > changing a device name arbitrarily and breaking a previously working > configuration while Linux has no such respect for its users' previous > work. Fedora may not be the place for it, but I would seriously like to > see a distribution based on the OpenSolaris kernel and the same user > programs you'd find in a current Linux or *bsd distro. Given that it's the user programs that have the lack of respect for previous configurations (Linus considers backwards-compatibility very important), I doubt you'll see any change for the better. OG. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
