[geeks] Sun is developing a new LINUX desktop!!

[Jonathan C Patschke]

On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 06:37 AM, Mike Meredith wrote:

> There's a lot of code being written for Linux these days. 90% of it is
> dross, but 10% is worth having. A few tweaks to make compiling Linux
> code easier doesn't sound too bad to me.

How about having nicely asking the -developer- of the code to make his 
crap portable, in exchange for having it included on the next Solaris 
Software Companion?  That sounds like an insanely great idea to me!  
But then, I've been spending my spare time over the last eight months 
porting nearly 300 software packages to IRIX, so I might be a bit 
biased towards developers getting their act together.

> Who says they're going to do that ? Looking at LSB, it would seem that
> it's possible to get to 90% compliance just by adding a few libraries
> and a few functions to libc.

Then that's not LSB-compliant.  At that point, they wouldn't be making 
life better for anyone.  If they become LSB compliant, that includes 
API changes, moving files around (basically juggling between /etc, 
/sbin, and /usr/sbin), possibly making /sbin/sh either a full-blown 
Korn shell or bash, and lots of other silliness that just doesn't need 
to happen.

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Jonathan C. Patschke
Celestrion Information Systems
Thorndale, TX