On 21/06/07, Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
BVK Chaitanya wrote, On 21/06/07 17:41:
> Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Calling it OpenSolaris would make things easier for beginners and
>> would also link the project with the community. I cannot see any
>> disadvantage on the proposal, actually.
>
> Where do Belenix, Nexenta, and others stand then? Are we going to break
> the community just for beginners sake? Aren't they OpenSolaris
> distributions?
>
> To me, it looks like calling Indiana OpenSolaris distro exactly means
> asking other distros to stop their work and redo based on indiana.
>
> Indiana is too late to be called The OpenSolaris Distro.
That sounds quite negative. I would rather thing that it isn't too
late for doing the right thing.. with them.
As we have discussed previously, OpenSolaris ought to be a binary
distribution. The source code is free, so it's up to each one to
build whatever they want, although we do need a reference binary
distribution in which the rest of derived distribution can be based
on (while they continue being compatible).
We do know how messy it has gotten for the Linux community. I bet
that many of us have had to deal with this problem before. It's
nasty; and we definitely do not want to repeat it in OpenSolaris.
I fail to see how that will happen here. We already have a reference
distribution for compatibility: Solaris 10.
--
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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