Tim Foster wrote: > > Fwiw, I'm currently in favour of calling a distribution "OpenSolaris", > but I'm also interested in exploring the options and promise to keep an > open mind. >
IMHO: If no independent entity (such as Joerg Schilling, Nextenda, myself, or potential others) is allowed to call her/his distro "foo-OpenSolaris", which is still the case, then this is bad enough. And if Sun thinks www.opensolaris.org needs a reference distro, that's indeed fine (even though Indiana and Jericho, as they are currently planned, will be way to fat to properly fulfill this purpose, as they are going to contain to much fancy padding and wrapping material that hasn't much to do with a reference distro of "OpenSolaris" [whatever this string happens to stand for, at a given time]). But if Sun feels they need to release "the one" OpenSolaris distro called "OpenSolaris", while disallowing others to use that name, how is OpenSolaris Open - Solaris then? And besides, why is it necessary to cause so much naming confusion every two or so years (do you remember Forte, ONE, Java, Studio etc.)? Which Linux distro is called "The official Linux distro"? Keeping the interfaces / API's binary compatible is a good thing. But too restrictive branding policy is not. You are harming yourself, because you may discourage folks from investing their time && resources, and you will never even know what actually did not happen, due to those regulations. > As soon as the project is started, could we propose a timeline for > putting the branding proposal together? Indiana previews this month, ^^^^^^^ --> Indiana _x64/x86 previews this month, Indiana_SPARC does not. > and > should ship in March '08, If you want a SPARC version, I would enjoy working on it. Then you can release both ISA's in sync, from the outset on. Well, no: I don't need to wait for newboot_SPARC ;-) -- cheers %martin > and it's pretty dependent on what we end up > deciding, so my suggestion would be: > > - proposal sent to advocacy community Nov 23rd > - vote put up on opensolaris.org 17th - 21st Dec > (dates totally picked out of the air, but it's a start) > > cheers, > tim > >
