Praveen Kumar wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> Bob Doolittle wrote: >>> Praveen Kumar wrote: >>>> What is Indiana? Is it going to be the code name for all OpenSolaris >>>> binary releases? I was thinking that OpenSolaris 2008.05 was Indiana >>>> and 2008.11 would be something else (Jericho?) and so on. The naming >>>> actually makes searching on Google a bit difficult. We discussed this >>>> issue in the SFO users' group meet yesterday. >>>> >>> Agreed. I think this view is widely held, and that it would be >>> confusing to create another distro and also call it Indiana. >>> >> Not to be too pedantic, but 2008.11 isn't a different distro, it's a >> different release of the same line of distro development. >> >> I don't think any of us is particularly attached to the Indiana name, >> but we aren't that motivated to make up another one, either. Perhaps my >> previous reply was a little abrupt (sorry, Dennis) but >> opensolaris-discuss isn't a viable suggestion because it's already in >> use for a different purpose. > > So, can I safely assume that Indiana means Sun's OpenSolaris present and > future binary distribution releases? OpenSolaris 2008.11 can be > addressed as Indiana 2008.11 and we would have Indiana 2009.05 after > that? I completely understand that "OpenSolaris" itself is the official > trademark for the distribution. However it may be informally addressed > as Indiana? >
Indiana remains the project producing those releases, so as long as that's what you're referring to, it would be correct. Using release-specific nomenclature is likely to be more useful for most references, though. > I particularly am not bothered whether we call it Indiana or something > else. I just want to know what it would be called going forward. I am > raising this mainly because of the confusion in making search engine > optimizations by using relevant keywords, whether it be in blog posts or > it be in how-to sort of documents. > > PS: If we weren't motivated to make up another name, what is Jericho? > A throw-away line that someone put in a slide once and certain press outlets continue to use? Dave _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
