On 10/20/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > Patrick Finch wrote: > > I don't agree that "OpenSolaris" works as an adjective. > > I like your alternative of an attributive noun. > > My objection is simply that we (Sun, the OpenSolaris Community, > or an arbitrary OpenSolaris CG Project) should not formally > define any particular distro as the singular "Opensolaris" > > Of course, people are fond of simplifying things, and will > naturally elide "the SunOS 5.10 ON consolidation, which is > released as part of Solaris 10" to simply "Solaris". Most > of the time it is clear from context what is meant. The other > times it causes mass confusion :-) > > That doesn't mean that we shouldn't strive to be precise. >
Agree completely. > > > > Ubuntu is ultimately an operating system and so, too, is OpenSolaris, > > The difference is that Ubuntu isn't trying to encourage multiple > peer top-level distros, and we are. > OpenSolaris till now is more closer to Linux(kernel) than Ubuntu(distro) by explicit definition in the FAQs and all the clarifications made in these 2years of existance. It is more akin to ubuntu attempting to call itself "The Linux distro". -Shiv
