On 31/10/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe we don't have to reconcile them, because they are /different/ > > things. Which of the following are OpenSolaris? Duh, they all are. > > They simply have different audiences: > > > > The OpenSolaris Operating System: > > At the minimalist end, we have a "miniroot" consisting > > ... > > > Today we have SX, SXDE, Schillix, Belinix, MartUX and Nexenta > > as examples of various targeted distros. If I have a binary > > program (say, oracle or my company's accounting package...), > > and I want to pick a distro, > > Should I /expect/ my application to just work on it? > > /Will/ it just work? > > Does the distro owner have any expectations in this regard? > > and most importantly, > > How would I tell? > > More than 2 years ago, we did agreee that noone except Sun has the > right to call a distro "OpenSolaris" and that Sun shoul/would not do this. > > I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called: > "Sun OpenSolaris ...." > > I have problems if this was not labelled with "Sun" as this would cause > harm to other existing OpenSolaris based distributions.
I have yet to see any qualifying statements that indicate exactly *how* other distributions would be harmed. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
