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

[Joerg Schilling]

"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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