On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
Peter Tribble wrote:
On 6/20/07, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben Creitz wrote:
What about a "long term support" release, too? Ubuntu will support an
"LTS" release for three years on desktops and 5 years on servers.
Fedora doesn't have this as far as I know, but for that type of
stability people turn to CentOS.
Absolutely. The LTS version will be called Solaris. :-)
Is that part of a plan or thinking out loud?
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. 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,
I get what you mean here, and I like the point you're making,
but I think re-wording like the following would get the point
across better to a lot more people:
... Do we move to a model where _Solaris Express_ is called
OpenSolaris, i.e., is a binary distribution maintained by
the community...
I guess that may seem like a tiny nit, but I think to most
people it reads really ambiguously the other way.
Eric
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.
-ian
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