On 23/04/2009, at 3:00 PM, Jakov Sosic wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:41:19 -0700 > David Fan <David.Fan at Sun.COM> wrote: > >> Do we have plan to drop the old SunOs 5.x and Solaris 2.x naming >> conventions? It's just confusing to new users if they don't know the >> naming history. About time for uname to return something like >> opensolaris 2008.11. > > Maybe we can set the uname to return 'Ubuntu Linux', that wouldn't be > confusing to the new users.
Do people have a problem with taking you seriously? > I'm very saddened to see the general way of - I will not say > development but ADAPTATION - of Solaris to Linux newbies. > > And, is there an official decision already that project Indiana will > be > Solaris Next?! Yes. Solaris Next (or whatever it ends up being called) will be derived from one of the 6 monthly OpenSolaris releases. The code is out there - feel free to create a distribution of your own. Glynn
