On 6/22/07, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter Tribble wrote:
> It makes sense, in some ways. But at the moment Solaris is the
> LTS version of Solaris Express - so where would Solaris Express
> go to in that world view? Replaced by Indiana?
That's the general direction: Indiana is the train, released at 6
month intervals, and every 2 years or 5 years or whatever (still
working out the ideal interval), the release is called Solaris,
and Sun commits to long term support, backward compatibility,
and the usual things Sun does around Solaris.
Apart from the support aspect, there are other differences between
Indiana and Solaris (the Sun version). One of these is the addition
of non-redistributable components. Those presumably stay in Solaris,
and presumably there may still be a need for the Indiana + those extra
components type of distribution that looks like Solaris Express does
at the moment. Or is that just a repackaging of the extra layers?
What happens to
the Solaris Express brand depends on what decision is made on
what to call Indiana. Do we move to a model where Indiana is called
OpenSolaris, i.e., is a binary distribution maintained by the
community, with multiple distributions in the mold of Ubuntu/
Kubuntu/Xubuntu/etc. and with binary compatibility across distros?
Or does Indiana continue to be called Solaris Express and is just one
distribution of many in the mold of Red Hat/SUSE/Debian/etc. with source
level compatibility across distros? That seems to be the big question.
I, for one, see negatives to the latter and many positives for the
former. (Although I see the characteristics of this model as being
key, and the marketing name less important.)
So, as far as the big question is concerned, I definitely want the
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/etc model.
--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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