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

[XinFeng Liu]

Hi, mhydra,
Thanks a lot for your comments. It's very interesting
> 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

Is there any web links available for that?

Thanks,
Xinfeng


On 2008?09?21? 19:06, mhydra wrote:
> 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.
>