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
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