On 10/20/07, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote: > If **I** had to vote today for a community distro to > be labeled "OpenSolaris", it would have to be Nexenta. Nexenta EXISTS, > has gone through quite a bit of testing, is a binary distro, and I > have had a chance to run it through it's paces. (This is assuming that > we can't call SXCE OpenSolaris) > > Obviously there are others that would feel it inappropriate to give > Nexenta the honor of sole bearer of the OpenSolaris name. To me > Indiana still has to earn it's right to displace Nexenta as the > leading repository based OpenSolaris distro. (If it's decided that for > clarity's sake a single distro is appropriate.)
On Nexenta note, I'd like to say that Nexenta's goal (and current state) is quite different that what we're hashing out Indiana to be. We had a talk here at BOSUG by Martin Man, one of the Nexenta developers, and one of their their main goal is to go upstream into debain. The packages created have been mixed and matched between SS12 and gcc. It is not up there yet on the stability side of things. This isnt to take anything away from the great work they've done. Perhaps Indiana could have started off with nexenta as the base to begin with. But various goals that Indiana had set for itself in the beginning (binary compatibility, reference distro, distribution constructor) meant Nexenta wasn't the top contender. Regards Anil
