On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:40 +0200, Patrick Finch wrote:
> Ben Creitz wrote:
> > On 6/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But seriously, I think "Luna" is awesome.
It was also the codename for JavaOS 1.1 (which I quite liked actually,
both the codename and the OS) but I don't think we should call another
OS Luna.
> "OpenSolaris" is still my preferred option, however.
I agree.
In fact, when I'm talking about the bits running on my desktop, I'm
already calling them OpenSolaris in generic terms - making a distro
that's actually called "OpenSolaris" should make it more obvious what we
expect someone to download first in order to start investigating it.
As has been mentioned, most people won't care about the codebase/binary
differentiation, and are the types that will just call Linux, Linux -
likewise here. It's up to Sun Marketing (or Belenix marketing, Nexenta
marketing, etc.) to differentiate OpenSolaris as expressed by their
editorial style[1] from each other.
Now the remaining question is, should other distributions have the right
to call themselves OpenSolaris - I think yes, they should be allowed to,
but would probably choose not to, since, as we all know, calling all
your sons "Dave" is a bad idea[2].
cheers,
tim
[1] http://www.webmink.net/free/Publish-ix.htm
search for "Just Like The Newspapers"
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories#.22Too_Many_Daves.22
(Had to get a reference to one of my daughter's favourite books in here
somewhere!)
--
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf
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