[advocacy-discuss] GNU/Linux is in stagnation, use that to make OpenSolaris popular.

[mhydra]

I am very big fan of OpenSolaris. Recently I tried for the first time
OpenSolaris 2008.5 and I was very surprised to see that it is more
comfortable than many Linuxes. OpenSolaris is known as operating
system for the advanced people but from what I have seen, I would say
that it is much user-friendly than Debian,Fedora and many others. Why?
Just because in OpenSolaris the things work.
As you may notice on the distrowatch rankings, some of the
distributions have decreasing of the popularity. If you compare the
results for the last 6 months and the results for the last year (2007)
you will see that most of the top distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora,
OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Debian have worse results for the current year.
It is strange, I though GNU/Linux is becoming more popular and more
popular. But this is not truth
Most of the GNU/Linux distributions made terrible mistake. They
allowed to have bad-working packages in their repositories. So, now
for example, Fedora almost has no quality video drivers. For the last
version of that distribution (Fedora 9) there are no working packages.
I do not know why but in the Livna repository are available only
testing and development packages for ATI video cards. The nvidia cards
are at some satisfying level as usual.
I tried them, they are horrible. http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/i386/

So, this is the moment for OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris should use that
moment to gain larger user base.

-- 
Svetoslav P. Chukov