On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:54 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:55:51 +0530 >> "Amit k. Saha" <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Ashwin Bhat <ashwinbhatks at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/events/current_tech_days/hyderabad/OpenSolaris%20Nevada%20.pdf >>> Resource Not Found >>> >> >> I like this term "Resource not found" and smiled to myself >> "How true" ... >> >> Going a bit OT, hope you guys know what "nevada" actually >> means in literal terms. Sure, it is a State in the US, but >> the word is long existing in the lexicon of the meteorology >> folk. "Nevada" actually means an ice cold mountain wind >> (or glacier breeze). With global warming, and all glaciers >> shrinking, it is obviously a case of "resource not found" !!! >> >> Jokes aside, it is the core technologies of Solaris which >> cover the core OS and networking layers. This OS/Net (ON) >> portion is what Nevada is. >> >> Just my limited understanding, > > Nevada is the SUN internal code-name of the project that resulted in the > the Solaris Express blah blah blah release train. Thus it is used to refer > to the ON source base that is the OpenSolaris source and also the > Solaris Express distribution from SUN.
Hmm.. Is the Solaris 10 release built out of Nevada? -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com
