[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Rich Teer]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, MC wrote:

> Sun is conspicuously trying to make opensolaris look and act like a
> top linux desktop distro, presumably to grab more desktop users.
> Learning about unix has nothing to do with that goal and doesn't matter
> at all.
> 
> Why do you need to learn about "unix" when the software you are using
> is all graphical GNOME apps?  Answer: you don't.  Or at least I don't.
> And neither do the literally one billion people who are using microsoft
> windows.

Indeed.  So if all one is using is graphical GNOME apps, why does CLI
stuff "need" to change?

If I wanted Linux, I'd be using Linux.  The fact that I'm a long term
Solaris user is a pretty strong hint that LInux is NOT what I want.

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