On 11/16/06, De Togni Giacomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see another problem.In my opinion,the question is about maintaining a single version of Solaris for Enterprise and Desktop market.These two enviroments are quite different for many reasons.Ten years ago,we had Motif an CDE for all enviroments and this was ok.Then,with the arriving of Gnome and KDE,we have had a new challenge for UNIX in the desktop market .A challenge for a better user-friendly enviroment, for a better integrated desktop into the OS and a more simple OS management.So,why have not two versions of Solaris OS? Most of code should be shared from OpenSolaris project,we can add some characteristics for specific enviroment:
this is a very solaris specific argument and has little to with opensolaris, different constraints too Please don't, having 2 different solaris distributions will split the efforts of the already limted developers that are working in solaris, that will certainly lead to lower overall quality of both distributions and will very likely confuse costumers. To sum up, it's a really nasty idea. on the other hand, you have opensolaris and (potentially) the number of developers is not so limited, youre free to grab the souces and start your own opensolaris distribution, others have and are quite successful, check nexenta for example. nacho _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
