> Ok, I understand your point. And it is cool with you > being first with several things. > > I am only asking if all distros cooperated on one > single distro, would it not be better if there was > only one "official" community distro. It does not > matter to people if it is Schillix or OpenIndiana, as > long as the distro attracts many core developers and > it gets momentum. But some people would prefer a pure > OpenSolaris distro, and not an entirely new animal. > > I understand there are lots of efforts invested in > each distro and lot of politics too. I am just > worried about fragmentation. Just like Unix: there > are Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SCO, Xenix, etc. And they > could not be merged, Unix continued to be fragmented. > And then suddenly Linux came and everyone joined it. > I am worried it will be the same with OpenSolaris: > lots of different distros and no one catch momentum. > But with a sader end: there is no single OpenSolaris > distro to emerge, but all these distros die instead. > > I think OpenSolaris community is not really > interested in umpteen different distros, as Linux > has. Only one distro is acceptable to most people. I > believe. But of course, people are free to disagree. > :o)
Well...there are probably people that prefer for example * traditional Solaris command set default vs GNU command set default * GNOME vs KDE (I'd still go with CDE, but it's not going forward and non-redistributable) * SVR4 packages vs IPS vs whatever packaging scheme Nexenta uses (there too there's a problem, inasmuch as other tools like beadm and zonecfg are also involved, although I gather it ought to be possible to come up with different versions of them for each packaging scheme that some distro or another uses) If one wants to keep maximum compatibility with OpenSolaris/Solaris 11 (Express), then I suppose one had better grit one's teeth and accept IPS. But the rest might well be handled mostly with additional packages for alternative command set(s) or GUIs. But don't forget that the most commercial (i.e. developers that do it as their day job) distro outside of Oracle is probably Nexenta, and they do Debian-based packaging and command set. So while one might be able to have one distro that tries to be the open successor to OpenSolaris (allowing most of the added value effort to be directed to additional packages rather than distro building), collaboration should exist at the level of the common source elements (i.e. Illumos, as an openly maintained ON consolidation) as well as at the distro maintenance level. That way, when Oracle eventually releases some commercial product and subsequently dumps a bunch of code updates over the wall, everyone can work together to merge the code updates. Failing to collaborate there would be one of the places where there would otherwise be a huge duplication of effort. But the result probably would have to be incorporated into a distro to be tested, and I can't see there being less than two basic distros: OpenIndiana (or something like it, as the open successor to the OpenSolaris distro) and NexentaCore; since both of those variants have a base of people using it not just for a home NAS or something, but for serious purposes (i.e. something that would lose money if it didn't work). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
