On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, ken mays wrote: > >> There's your example of harm; Jon Trulson would be > supporting only >> the reference distribution and not the other > distros. This can be >> expected to hold true for others. [1] >> >> Ceri >> >> [1] This can, of course, be seen to be a good thing > for ISVs, but > that's >> not the question which was one of harm to other > distros. > [...strange reply-quoting snipped...] > > Actually, this goes against what we discussed at the > OpenSolaris Developer Summit. If you don't have a > common consistency amongest "OpenSolaris" distros then > we are just setting up a main point of failure to > support and maintenance efforts. > > We made a point that the distros should have a > "minimum reference standard" at the least. If an ISV > goes off and builds 'Solaris' packages, a common set > of core libs and binaries should exist amongest all > distro to be called "Indiana-compatible" or whatever. >
Yes, please. > Kinda like Nvidia has a "reference graphics board" it > might send people for review of their GPUs or graphic > cards. Their OEMs then go off and may modify the > graphic card to their liking or jack up the clock > speed. They sell us an "Nvidia-based" graphic card at > the end of the day, but either it has a few "extras" > or maybe just a bare bones card. To the common > consumer, they may not know much of the difference or > really care - as long as it is an Nvidia card as it > says on the box and works with Nvidia drivers (and > their games/demos...). > Actually, just look at it from their driver development perpective. Do you think they (and perhaps Sun) can support the nvidia driver on a bunch of incompatible Solaris dists? Do you think they would even try? I imagine all of you out there with nvidia chipsets are going to use the Solaris dist(s) that Nvidia's drivers work on, regardless of it's name and 'branding'. Right? So some sort of reference is already required, isn't it? [...] > ~Ken Mays > -- Happy cheese in fear | Jon Trulson against oppressor, rebel! | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brocolli, hostage. -Unknown | #include <std/disclaimer.h> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
