[advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Shawn Walker]

On 02/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>
> > On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > > "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ubuntu thrived despite Debian's long years of existence.
> > > >
> > > > Slackware continues despite RedHat's rise.
> > > >
> > > > SUSE continues despite RedHat.
> > > >
> > > > Mandraiva continues despite ... etc.
> > >
> > > Does Suse claim to publish "Linux"?
> > > Does Ubuntu claim to publish "Linux"?
> > > Does Redhat claim to publish "Linux"?
> > > Does Mandriva claim to publish "Linux"?
> >
> > That isn't the same. Linux is a kernel; the material provided by
> > OpenSolaris comprises a complete operating system.
>
> Not true: OpenSolaris is not even a complete basic OS.
>
> Guess why I had to work hard to create the SchilliX distribution to make
> a bootable environment from the OpenSolaris bits? Also note that the tendency to
> replace useland tools by GNU tools let's OpenSolaris approach the Linux idea
> of only being a kernel.

The distribution constructor + Indiana will prove that statement
wrong. Jorg, this isn't two years ago, we're in a far better situation
now than we were when you made SchilliX. For example, we have libm,
etc. now.

Folks *can* build their own distribution right now only using
components available from OpenSolaris.org.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

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