Will Solaris Express will be deprecated in favor of Indiana? Or, will Indiana be the defacto trunk distro of OpenSolaris, with comm ed. and dev ed. becoming supported releases?
Regardless, here are some suggestions: OpenSolaris Engaged (married to the community) OpenSolaris Flare OpenSolaris Evolve (is sun evolving?) OpenSolarisOS (easier to search for) OpenSolaris vX[.x.x] (plain and simple) SolarFlare OS (not quite solaris, but still something from Sun) SunFlare OS (this is probably trademarked) Solar Fire OS (again, we have the sun and lighting a fire under someones...) If anyone is opposed to the name containing opensolaris, please suggest an alternative. I'm completely naïve here, I'd just like to see it named so we set to rest how it will affect sx or not (or let Sun do that, whatever), and the roadmap and distribution discussion isn't littering our inboxes. Alex Leverington > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ian Murdock > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:52 AM > To: Peter Tribble > Cc: Indiana Discuss > Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] Release roadmap > > 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, 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 > -- > Ian Murdock > 650-331-9324 > http://ianmurdock.com/ > > "Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." > --Satchel Paige _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > The contents of this email message and any attachments are confidential and are intended solely for the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. This transmission is sent in trust for the sole purpose of delivery to the intended recipient. If you have received this transmission in error; any use, reproduction or dissemination of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately notify the sender by reply email and delete this message and all associated attachments. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
