On 8/1/07, Stephen Lau <stevel at sun.com> wrote: > > Brian Gupta wrote: > > John, I think that OpenSolaris can mean all those things and more. And > > it's all good... Can't we just use context to determine the meaning? > > No. Examples: > > 1) I installed OpenSolaris > - Did you install OpenSolaris the distribution? Or an OpenSolaris-based > distribution?
SXCE or SDXE (I haven't heard people referring to nexenta as OpenSOlaris. Nexenta yes. Gnusolaris yes. Sobuntu yes. 2) I built OpenSolaris > - Did you build OpenSolaris the distribution? Or build an > OpenSolaris-based distribution? Generally it is interpreted as the ON consolidation. (I thought this was pretty well understood.) 3) Go grab OpenSolaris from OpenSolaris at OpenSolaris. > - A nonsense sentence? Not if OpenSolaris can mean multiple things. > This could mean "Go grab OpenSolaris (the distribution) from OpenSolaris > (the webapp) at OpenSolaris (the website)" To me OpenSolaris (the bits/distro) has come to mean SXCE (I know that this is so wrong in many ways. I wish we could just push the final wrapping of SXpress outside, so we can change the name to OpenSolaris). Outside distros are always called by their name. (Nexenta/Belenix/Shillix) Actually come to think of it, probably no one outside of Sun thinks that OpenSolaris is a webapp. (I thought it was called Jive)... Generally people say Opensolaris.org or "the opensolaris website" It's nonsense. I agree, there are certain words that can be used in > context - but an important term like "OpenSolaris" is not one such word. > > cheers, > steve > > -- > stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net > opensolaris // solaris kernel development > P.S. - I just noticed this is an OGB discussion. I will stop talking now... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20070801/b21f4fcb/attachment.html>
