[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name
Joerg Schilling
Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Wed Oct 31 09:56:31 PDT 2007
"Isaac R." <isaac at sun.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think the question of "getting access to" OpenSolaris could be
> addressed by allowing (anyone interested in doing so) to
> make that decision by looking at a matrix with requirements
> (horizontally), and how various distro's satisfy those requirements
> (vertically).
>
> Assuming each of the distros were using Nevada as the kernel (which is
> available through the OpenSolaris project, and which they do), then all
> distro's deserve to be referenced as OpenSolaris-based, even if such
> distro's come from Sun. Similar, in some ways, to the "Intel-inside"
> marketing
OpenSolaris Inside would be a nice idea.
Together with a compatibility test, there could be tags like
ACME RabbitOS - OpenSolaris Inside - OpenSolaris Binary compatibility type C.
Jörg
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