On 10/05/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote: > > Common usage is insuffucuently precise to convey technical meaning. > > Every GNU/Linux distribution has a different goal, different values, > > different technologies, and different means of deploying those > > technologies. Even if one took "Linux" to mean "the collective set of > > GNU/Linux distributions, their contents, and the surrounding > > ecosystem" that would not provide any information about the work under > > consideration here. > > AGAIN, SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME.
It is your proposal so it is your problem to solve. Don't blame us if we aren't motivated to do the work for you. > > "Linux-like." It's hard to be excited about and supportive of a > > project with a nauseating name. > > It's happening. Linux is here to stay. What is being proposed by the > top brass at Sun, is exactly what I have been saying. (Personally I > don't like the fact that we have an operating system named after the > kernel project leader). You seem to miss the point. > This is the new market reality. Do what you have to do to get over it, > and move on. I finally have. The market reality is that Microsoft owns most of the market. If anything, it would make more sense to provide a more "Windows like" experience than Linux one. The same is true for OS X, it has more users than Linux too (as far as commercially shipping OEM systems go). Instead of realising that we are trying to point out user experience as the most important thing, you seem bent on enforcing a single view of the world on users of a project that are not likely to welcome it. Try a different approach. > If Sun can attract even a relatively small percentage of the Linux > community to develop and use OpenSolaris, this push will have been > more than worth it. I'm fairly certain they already have a small percentage. Quite frankly, I don't care where the users come from. I would like *all users* to be attracted to the project regardless of the OS they use now, and focusing on the "user experience" instead of on making Solaris more "Linux like" is a better way to get there. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
