[advocacy-discuss] Indiana as the OpenSolaris xxxx distro

[Eric Boutilier]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> Naming a distrio "OpenSolaris" would create the impression that there is only
> onle distribution and thus harm other distributions.
>

And Martin Bochnig wrote:
=
= But if Sun feels they need to release "the one" OpenSolaris distro
= called "OpenSolaris", while disallowing others to use that name, how is
= OpenSolaris Open - Solaris then?
=

Can we can simultaneously accommodate the above wishes, and the
following?

Ian Murdock wrote:
| Is OpenSolaris just the code base, or is it an operating
| system you can download and run?"
|


That's what this boils down to, IMO. And the reason why it's
good that this (uniquely difficult) issue will be resolved by a
referendum (John Plocher's proposal).

I suppose we might wind up with a compromise: Having something
called "The OpenSolaris Reference Distro" (e.g. Sanjay's team's
project: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install/); 
but not something called "The OpenSolaris Distro".

That's suboptimal, IMO, for sure. But given the current
circumstances (we should have done an official distro project
when we launched 2+ years ago, but we didn't), that compromise
is better than risking this kind of repercussion, which I agree
is a possibility:

Previously, Josh Berkus wrote:
    "If we turn our backs on BelleniX and Nexenta and Schillix in
    order to make Indiana the exclusive OpenSolaris distribution,
    get ready to see enrollment in the OpenSolaris community drop
    by 50%."