Re: why open source software is better

[Aaron Kulkis]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:
> 
> > Solaris will probably stay on in the short to medium term. In the
> > long term, Sun might replace it with Linux in order to save the
> > costs of developing their own kernel. Frankly, it doesn't bother
> > me much one way or the other, it's only a kernel.
> 
> I think the times are over when you could take a stock Linux kernel
> and integrate it into your OS distribution.  Nowadays, a considerable
> amount of work is needed to extract a working, secure, compatible,
> and well-performing kernel out of the publicly available sources,
> especially if you're targeting a minority platform.  Some past
> design decisions have considerably increased the complexity of the
> kernel, and I've started to doubt that the current concept of kernel
> development can deal with the problems which will certainly arise in
> the not-too-distant future.

You're working on a reverse time-line, aren't you, you devil.

However, for the REST of the world, the exact opposite of what you
described above is what actually applies.



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