Jim Grisanzio wrote: > itself thrives. We started this project four years ago to build a > developer community. That was the primary goal from which multiple > objectives would grow. In fact, the notion of building a developer > community was part of virtually every meeting I attended even a year > before we launched. Also, we always knew we would eventually grow to > have multiple layers to the community, not simply kernel developers. > > Surely, having a kernel developer community is the least of Sun's actual problems. Sun has developers and having most development done in the context of a funded and managed environment is very valuable. What is needed most of all is a *user* community that extends beyond those of us who work in large corporates who have medium and large Sun servers.
From that perspective, having a community that contributes to an involving user-land has to be the primary focus, and I suspect that the decisions to call this 'OpenSolaris' and to make it much more receptive to people familiar with packaging for Linux is right on the money. Please, however, don't ignore the BSD community. In particular, I would encourage anyone interested in (Open)Solaris to download PC-BSD and look at the user experience there with the installation and PBIs. Presumably, it would also be feasible to offer a BSD userland, not just a GNU one. Perhaps the installer can allow a choice of GNU, BSD and SysV (or de-jure UNIX or hawever you want to characterise it). James _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
