On 10/05/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote: > In light of the recent announcement by Ian, I think this might give > this thread new light. (Please tell me if my take away (understanding) > is different than the intended message.)
I don't see any official announcement. If anything, I've only seen wild speculation in a new article with absolutely no specific details. > Ok, I would say at this point we should evaluate the major Linux > packaging systems. (I'd like to go with apt, and start building source > packages. (Eventual, we could hope to have common source packages with > Ubuntu.) apt is not a packaging system. apt-get is a frontend for a packaging program at last check called dpkg. > Please let me know if anyone is interested in working on a proposal to > the OGB for community change ups. I am thinking that in light of the > new information, we should just call the community "Linux > integration", and make all of the rest projects in that community. (If > anything touches another community it would be branched to the the > proper forum). Bad name and too focused on a single item. Plus I suspect if this is an actual project inside Sun, they already have a name and already have a project that will join the OpenSolaris website soon. Not only that, Linux is a trademarked word, you should not use it like that. If you really want your own project try, "OS Immigration Project" or the like (I swear we already have something similar). > P.S. - If anyone doesn't like this, they could always start their own > distro, that follows the old Solaris model. You speak as if this was the new official direction and there was no room for any other. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
