[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Alan Perry]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Indeed! He now calls it a piece of crap because Solaris follows the P=
>> OSIX=20
>> standard.....
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg36142.html
>>     
>
> As in `I do not understand basic system or library calls so if my program
> breaks things it cannot possibly my fault'.
>
> (Of course, you should not be running source code management systems as
> root and I think that when we tested git it fell over all the time).
>
> I don't mind Linus calling Solaris crap; it's about as meaningful as me
> calling Linux crap: I'm not using Linux and he's not using Solaris.
>   
Anyone why Linus hates Solaris?

A couple of months ago, he made some bogus claims about Solaris on the 
Linux SPARC mailing list, so I sent him e-mail indicating that he was 
wrong.  We exchanged a couple more e-mails and he told me things about 
Solaris with absolute certainty that may have been true 10 years ago, 
but are not true now. 

alan