Comment Re:Relax. (Score 1) 467
I use Solaris extensively. I like it very much, probably because I know more about it than any other Unix, but I also like Linux, because it's easier to just blow onto a box when I need to create a workstation or test something trivial.
I dare say that I am moderately to very experienced in compiling freenix (Linux, *BSD) soures to work with Solaris, both GNU and of other origin. A few times, I have submitted patches of what I have done, not necessarily "correcting" an "error", but most often dealing with Solaris idiosyncrasies that can be "fixed", but typically might not be (think DNS round-robin and the result when using INADDR_ANY).
However, an overwhelming amount of times, the people maintaining the sources have just shrugged and said "well, post it on some Solaris messageboard, we don't run Solaris", or given some other response in the same vein. I'm not saying everyone's guilty of this, but a lot of developers think that if it can be fixed on the system, it should be, not in the software. This is unfeasible when speaking about server installations, that cater to a multitude of other applications. I will not break, or even force reconfiguration of, iPlanet, for instance, just to be able to run a small util.
I dare say that I am moderately to very experienced in compiling freenix (Linux, *BSD) soures to work with Solaris, both GNU and of other origin. A few times, I have submitted patches of what I have done, not necessarily "correcting" an "error", but most often dealing with Solaris idiosyncrasies that can be "fixed", but typically might not be (think DNS round-robin and the result when using INADDR_ANY).
However, an overwhelming amount of times, the people maintaining the sources have just shrugged and said "well, post it on some Solaris messageboard, we don't run Solaris", or given some other response in the same vein. I'm not saying everyone's guilty of this, but a lot of developers think that if it can be fixed on the system, it should be, not in the software. This is unfeasible when speaking about server installations, that cater to a multitude of other applications. I will not break, or even force reconfiguration of, iPlanet, for instance, just to be able to run a small util.
