i don't usually read slashdot and almost never read the comments to the main articles, and today i reminded myself why. this thread contains so many wild and ludicrous claims of how sun operates and what is and is not inside solaris that i felt my blood pressure shooting through the roof after only 40 seconds of reading.

most of the ludicrous claims revolve around the assertion that opensolaris™ is vaporware. well, sun's spent a lot of money, effort and corporate reputation on getting this going, so there's no way it's not going to happen. if you're worried about timing then there's a simple answer: other people's IP. the code has to be so clean you could eat your dinner off it. otherwise something like this or or this could happen. ever wonder what would have happened if IBM had sued SCO over a similar issue? (here's a hint - IBM has more money & probably a bigger legal team...) now consider how much some of sun's competitors would like to see sun microsystems "disappear".

so opensolaris will be ready when it's ready - so sun can keep on trading without lawsuits popping up to distract.

but back to other ludicrous claims in slashdot. we had:

• " Maybe you don't see much difference on your SS5, but on my 15k domains SVM/UFS can't hold a candle to VxVM/VxFS." - my response is "something is probably wrong with your UFS set up then" (see here)
• "Sun is probably going to try to shoehorn the Linux JFS/Ext3 filesystem into the kernel. I guess they could just release it with UFS only, but who'd want to run a server on a non-journaled filesystem?" - at which point i almost fell off my chair. the phrase rtfm came immediately to mind. ufs logging has been around since 1998, but why let facts get in the way...
• i got bored looking now... but maybe you get the point

i wonder if the ranters are ranting because they can't wait - or because they just like ranting?