[advocacy-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What *is* OpenSolaris about?

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

Hi,

How about this one: "OpenSolaris: What ever you want it to be"

Open ended, aiming all areas.

Matthew

On 25/06/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> > Hmm, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll :-)
> >
> > One would assume that since there isn't that "what is Opensolaris all
> about" means that it is what ever you as an individual want it to be - you
> want to port it to your toaster or roaster - great. You want to run it as a
> desktop operating system - hey, what ever floats your boat. Want to simulate
> a nuclear blast - hey, what every turns you on.
>
> Well, I think we certainly have stuff outlining what we are all about,
> but what I think Darren was suggesting is that we ought to update some
> of it. It's old. Keep in mind that a lot of that stuff was written when
> there really wasn't much of a community, but in the last two years a lot
> of people came by. That's cool. So, sure, let's discuss it.
>
> > Personally, for me, I think having things like 'what is it all about'
> limits the scope, and what you end up having is a ingrained pigeon hole
> which serves only to limit the growth of the operating system by putting an
> arbitrary frame to say, "this is what the OS is for, and only for that".
> Solaris already has a 'reputation' for being a 'server only operating
> system' (quotations added for a reason), we certainly don't need to compound
> it further.
>
> I agree. We don't want to limit ourselves, but I think we could be a bit
> more inspirational along the way, don't you think? As we specify what
> OpenSolaris is right now, we should also explore what's possible in the
> future. OpenSolaris is different. We ought to celebrate those
> differences and describe them passionately so we inspire others.
> Something like that. :)
>
> People are contributing to Darren's thread now on advocacy-discuss:
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=33665&tstart=0
>
> Jim
> --
> Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
>
>
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