Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> <serious-flame>
>
> I very seldom complain publicly about vendors such as Sun Microsystems, so
> this is a bit unusual. Just to note, in 1983, Sun was the first Unix system
> that I had ever used, and I continuously used it until about 1998, when I
> switched to Linux. Their OS was quite stable and worked with a lot of high
> end equipment. I enjoyed working with it, but found that Linux OS was very
> nice and worked with much cheaper and more available hardware (the reason for
> my switch to Linux).
>
> Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that they
> somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not significantly
> improved their user interface -- a big disappointment for me. I ended up
> with a default system that had a Java user interface and a /home/kern that
> was read-only (can you imagine that by default your home directory is
> read-only?). I finally gave up.
What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently
using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0
Are you using the automounter to mount /export/home/kern to /home/kern?
if autofs is turned on (default) you can't write to /home because thats
where the user directories are mounted
>
> I would have been happy to leave things there, but Sun has not stopped making
> my life difficult. First they bought MySQL, which is heavily used by Bacula
> users. Their latest source prerelease for Solaris, which two of our
> regression testers were using was simply broken and did not work. Great, Sun
> buys MySQL and breaks it! I can understand why the MySQL developers are
> leaving and MariaDB was created -- what a pity.
This was due to a compiler bug:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49091
a simple fix is to use mysql5 instead of the default mysql51
"pkg install SUNWmysql5"
> For the last several users I have been using VirtualBox. It has worked
> perfectly. Recently, my RHEL 64 when applying upgrades upgraded from RHEL
> 5.3 to 5.4, then shortly later, the VM hard disk image destroyed itself. The
> first time in 2 or 3 years that I had any problem. OK, that kind of thing
> can happen.
>
> So, I upgraded from VirtualBox version 2.2 to version 3.1 on my Xeon machine.
>
> In doing so, the new Virtual box has destroyed *all* the VM images that I had
> (8-10). I don't know if you have ever setup and configured a VM, but it is
> not a trivial amount of work.
>
> As far as I am concerned Sun OpenSource software venture stinks. I think
> with
> all the noise about Oracle buying them, and their blunders in implementation
> of OpenSolaris, MySQL, and VirtualBox, they have little chance of surviving
> in the Open Source software market. Perhaps their high-end hardware
> offerings will fare better.
>
> </serious-flame>
>
> Kern
>
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