On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck wrote: > Hi, given the press lately from IBM on OpenSolaris it seems the moment to > release the code for Power and call it simply what it is: OpenSolaris on > Power. We have supported the diligent effort of Sun Labs and enthusiastic > preparatory Blastware ambitions for over a year. Polaris has been the > community chosen name for the port, but the trademark issues related to > Solaris have made it necessary to reevaluate the name on the advent of the > release. Polaris gave us direction during the incubation period. With all > the current fanfare let's push code the code out right in the middle of the > limelight. The OpenSolaris on Power name makes the point. Let's call it > that.
Great idea, although I'm not convinced of the name. At the moment there's only one distro on Power, but what if that were to change? "OpenSolaris on Power" is, IMHO, a bit too generic--imagine what would've happened if Joerg Schilling decided to call his distro "OpenSolaris on x86"... How about GenesIX? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich
