[advocacy-discuss] [news-discuss] Opensolaris.org "News" WTF??

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> > This thought is probably too impractical b/c it
> would require too much effort.  But it is a thought
> nevertheless.
> >
> > Sometimes I hope this "News" spot is the place that
> I will be able to find OpenSolaris-related info
> first-hand.
> >   
> 
> It could be if we wanted it to be.
> 
> > For example, Intel officially announced the release
> of Centrino 2 today.  I am sure someone @ Sun must
> have been working on its compatibility.  Anticipating
> Centrino 2's release, perhaps someone who knows
> what's going on (inside Sun) could have arranged to
> have a blog written specifically for that purpose,
> which can then be released synchronously with Intel's
> announcement.  It's a pity that we are totally in the
> dark. :-(
> >   
> 
> Well corp announcements are always kept to a
> relatively few number of 
> people even inside the company, so don't take it
> personally. :) I had no 
> clue about the Intel announcement, and if Sun were
> involved I'd not even 
> see that until it hit the press. That's just an
> example. However, I 
> think it's fine if marketing wanted to post
> OpenSolaris-related 
> announcements to opensolaris-announce and then post
> the resulting news 
> coverage to the News page. I don't think anyone wants
> corporate press 
> releases on advocacy-discuss, though, and it's not
> even necessary to 
> post the full press release on opensolaris-announce.
> Just a pointer to 
> big news would be helpful with a sentence or two of
> summary.
> 
> > As another Example, Mike Dillon is doing an
> excellent job of reporting the Sun-NetApp ZFS
> litigation.  I was surprised that his blog was not
> picked up by Slashdot.  This is an important issue
> (especially in terms of wanting the general public to
> submit patent-invalidating prior art), but we just
> forgot about it.  It is much easier to herd the
> general public to follow our own (improved) version
> of Slashdot, which would have picked up Mike's blog,
> than the hundreds of Sun blogs.
> I think we should all feel free to post issues to
> advocacy-discuss for 
> discussion. You read something you feel is important
> and want kick it 
> around on list. Do it. Information is distributed so
> much that no one 
> can keep track of it all.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -- 
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
> 

Hi Jim,

I was thinking more like having a media chutzpah moment (for maximum publicity).  Something like Intel just announced the release of Centrino 2, and we immediately have an informal news article which links to a blog that discusses some test results of running Solaris on this new chipset.  Wouldn't this be very nice?   :-)

This is definitely not a corporate announcement type, but would require tight coordination with and close support from Sun's internal developers (because of NDS and whathaveyou).

As a personal experience, for quite some time, Solaris was the only OS (other than Windows, of course) that works with my mother's ThinkPad R61i.  (The only Linux distro that worked with the GMA 3100 chipset at that time was Sabayon, but it shouldn't count because it boots into the frame buffer mode.)  I think Solaris has a very unique and advantageous mechanism that works very well with cooperating hardware vendors to quickly bring the benefits of new devices to end users.  This is something that IMO has not received the kind of interest that it deserves.
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