On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:43 AM, John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Re: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=129430&tstart=15 > > As Dennis said, "We are in a situation after some five years of the > OpenSolaris community where one can not simply download sources and build > something runnable. We can not even bootstrap the kernel without special > corporate internal knowledge and resources. There are still large numbers of > closed bins, trap doors and secret hallways just to build the current > OpenSolaris code base."
That´s not an accurate description. His text proves a few things. Namely that somebody turns things up and down. Ian Murdock was a short flash of light? The kernels are not bootable??? What?????? Ok, join that effort, lol . > This is an invitation for y'all to come on over to the Distribution > community and join us as we brainstorm and code a real, community driven > distro into existence. Joerg and Moinak are already there, plotting how > they can start by leveraging each other's build procedures and associated > source code to allow anyone to easily clone the ON sources from > OpenSolaris.org and build a kernel that boots to a shell prompt. > > Once we get to that point, we'll take another step towards removing barriers > and enabling community participation. And another. A bunch of little > steps, maybe, but they all add up. > > Join us! > > -John Plocher > Less talk, more code! IMO this was already too much talk. Everybody can join one of the existing distros, such as BeleniX or MilaX. Recommended: Certain parties should just start reading those websites and associated Blogs first, for the first time! And btw: Everybody can just contribute to existing Sun/Oracle repo gates, such as caiman (led by the very community-involvement openminded David Miner). Why starting this entire ^Dennis needs to lead a new reference^ distro talk? Starting it on the general opensolaris-discuss alias will end up in an endless loop of flames. I rather escape before it gets hot here. [in 2 minutes I unsubscribe from opensol-discuss] %mab _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
