On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, James Carlson wrote:
> What we come back to is that a common and minimal "reference
> distribution," at least as you're describing, isn't what the rest
> of the proponents (notably Sun's marketing) want to have here.
> Instead, they want a single "known good" distribution that can be
> proposed for all first-time users. Ignoring that desire will, I
> think, set us up for future conflicts of exactly this nature.
It seems the "good for reference distro" and "good for marketing
distro" are two seperate things.
- One needs to be a reasonably complete distribution, for a wide
audience.
- The other needs to be confined to the intersection of all^Wmost
OpenSolaris distributions.
The smallest, useful source subset of OpenSolaris available today
would be OS/Net, no? The smallest, useful binary subset would be the
reduced networking cluster of ON.
Is there a good reason to not use those as the initial reference, and
incrementally approve on them?
regards,
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