Brian Gupta wrote: > Just to clarify it again for everyone. Over the past couple of weeks, > I was under the impression that Opensolaris is solaris, just done in a > public forum where anyone can contribute. When I expressed this view, > many people from sun and from outside Sun "corrected" me. They told me > Solaris was just a distro, and that decisions made by OpenSolaris > would not match the decisions of Solaris. "might not match"
Sun hopes to ship OpenSolaris as Solaris with as few modifications as possible. Since much of the infrastructure (ARCs in particular) are shared, any deviation will be a well understood decision. Yes, Sun Solaris is a special distribution. We can't deny that. It will be for the foreseeable future. It might not be forever. The point is that in doing this, we must not hinder any other distributions. - jek3
