> There's your example of harm; Jon Trulson would be supporting only > the reference distribution and not the other distros. This can be > expected to hold true for others. [1] > > Ceri > > [1] This can, of course, be seen to be a good thing for ISVs, but that's > not the question which was one of harm to other distros.
I think you're reaching. As has been stated numerous times throughout the thread today, what end users decide to run as their OpenSolaris-based distro will determine which distro(s) an ISV has to support. On the other hand, if ISVs like Jon qualify a "reference" distribution then ti should be easier to offer support to derivative distros as well. Certainly easier than is the case in Linux-land today. Marty ---------------------------------- Actually, this goes against what we discussed at the OpenSolaris Developer Summit. If you don't have a common consistency amongest "OpenSolaris" distros then we are just setting up a main point of failure to support and maintenance efforts. We made a point that the distros should have a "minimum reference standard" at the least. If an ISV goes off and builds 'Solaris' packages, a common set of core libs and binaries should exist amongest all distro to be called "Indiana-compatible" or whatever. Kinda like Nvidia has a "reference graphics board" it might send people for review of their GPUs or graphic cards. Their OEMs then go off and may modify the graphic card to their liking or jack up the clock speed. They sell us an "Nvidia-based" graphic card at the end of the day, but either it has a few "extras" or maybe just a bare bones card. To the common consumer, they may not know much of the difference or really care - as long as it is an Nvidia card as it says on the box and works with Nvidia drivers (and their games/demos...). I think of this Indiana project kinda the same way now... ~Ken Mays __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
