On 11/27/11 7:49 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
Regarding the name, I never for a second thought picking OpenIndiana would
cause us so much grief. It was picked on purely logical grounds. When Sun
decided to create a usable distribution out of the OpenSolaris source code, the
project for it was Indiana. Since we're the continuation of that project, but
in the community, and since Solaris is trademarked, OpenIndiana just made
perfect sense to me.
In Europe we have products and companies named after far more insane things, like the Egg credit card, the
Smile bank. Nobody bats an eyelid. Linux has far stupider sounding names. "CentOS",
"Gentoo" and "Ubuntu" all sound ridiculous to me, but I think nothing of it.
The people who originally seemed to revile most against OpenIndiana were the
IPS haters, the people burned within Sun by the project, so I just shrugged it
off.
But if people do genuinely dislike it, if it does threaten the success of the
project, then I would happily consider taking the proposition of a name change
to our core developers. But we'd need to know for sure that it's an issue,
because changing it involves a significant amount of work.
Regarding the embarrassing state of the website, unfortunately nobody with any
web design talents has stepped forward to assist with it. When the project
began one individual did come forward, but he insisted on using a less common
CMS (liferay) and he got bored before we could reach consensus on how to move
forward. Since then, nobody else has volunteered.
We have a commitment to hire a real web designer for the web site.
If I had more money I would pay because I can't bare to look at the website, it
pains me so much. I don't dare say a text based one like Debian's would be
better. But right now my priority is the distribution itself.
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