Eric Boutilier wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote: >> ... >> The darn message (like it or not) has resonated already... > > Exactly. At a conference or similar venue, 19 out of 20 > questions/comments one hears use OpenSolaris to mean "an > operating system": > > - Are you demo'ing OpenSolaris? > - Are you giving out OpenSolaris DVDs? > - Are you running OpenSolaris on your laptop? Can I see it? > - Can I run Linux applications on OpenSolaris? > - Does OpenSolaris have good security? > - Does OpenSolaris only run on SPARC systems? > - Does OpenSolaris run on PCs? > - Does OpenSolaris run on Macs? > - How hard is it to install OpenSolaris? > - I hear there are now some businesses (e.g. Joyent) that run > OpenSolaris in production. > - I just installed OpenSolaris last week. I like it... > - I just read a review of OpenSolaris... > - I keep hearing about ZFS, does OpenSolaris run ZFS? > - I'm a Fedora user, how is OpenSolaris different/better? > - Is OpenSolaris Free? > - Is there a KDE port (or procmail, or Ruby, or whatever) port > for OpenSolaris? Where do I get it? > - What are OpenSolaris' strengths? > - What's the difference between regular Solaris and OpenSolaris? > - Where do I download OpenSolaris? > - Etc.
Yah, I get all these too (and I can even answer some of them!) :). And just to clarify: I'm perfectly happy for OpenSolaris to include a distro called OpenSolaris (pending branding and community approval), but OpenSolaris should always be bigger than any given distro -- even a reference "OpenSolaris" distro -- and it needs to be bigger than Sun's Solaris 10 products as well. Eventually, anyway. It needs to be flexible enough to be known as many things (community, source, distro, etc). Right now OpenSolaris is source code. Tomorrow it will be a binary. When that binary comes and it's based 100% on open source, that will help clarify some of these issues. This is simply the natural evolution of a large development project, that's all. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
