> Before I get to the question in the subject, let me spell out > the background for it: <snip> > While it might be exciting for lots of executive types at Sun, > for those who are in the open source community, > it's incredibly "ho hum".
I wouldn't give it that much. > What OpenSolaris needs is something like this: > > OpenSolaris: the premier open source server platform > > or... > > "The OpenSolaris project is the only SVR4 based open source > platform that scales evenly from 1 CPU to 128 CPUs." That is sweet. Can we say that it is UNIX ? At the very least let's look at the Single UNIX Spec and determine if we can say it is UNIX ? GNU is not UNIX but OpenSolaris sure is. > OpenSolaris: the open source platform that scales with your hardware that's ho mum. > That www.opensolaris.org hosts a number of things besides the > nevada source code, I'm well aware of, *but* if we just refer > to a large glob of things, then, well, it is hard to be as > exciting as through dedicated focus on a particular aspect > and attract attention. agreed > Afterall, we are all a part of many different communities, > the question is why and how do we attract someone *to* opensolaris. > Just saying we're "open" (and a community) does not cut it. > We need a differentiator. This is UNIX and you can't beat it with a stick. I dunno really ... I think that the real difference is that Linux is Linux and UNIX is UNIX and maybe what OpenSolaris really is .. is UNIX. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
