[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>   What we (and I assume, other 'commercial' developers) care about is
>   the binary compatibility, stability of the kernel API, userland
>   interface - libc, basic commands (shell, cp/rm/etc), and of course
>   the packaging mechanism, to name a few.  Kernel/Userland
>   compatibility within major Solaris revisions is a also big plus.

Compatibility is a very difficult issue to assess; even when having a 
reference distribution, issues like the following arise:

	- if the incompatibility is due to a bug in the reference 
distribution, does it count?
	- if an incompatibility is due to a difference in default $PATH,
does it count

There are many different ones I can think of.

Casper