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

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