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

[Isaac R.]

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
of the mid-90's.  Its based on OpenSolaris (as an adjective), but it  
could only be  THE (noun) OpenSolaris distribution if it would clearly 
define the delta's/features that it has compared with:  1) other 
distro's and 2) how it fits  into and benefits the overall OpenSolaris 
(adjective) project.   

Perhaps overly simplified, but I often feel we need to keep things simple.

My $0.02.

Regards,
Isaac



Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 31/10/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>   
>> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Maybe we don't have to reconcile them, because they are /different/
>>> things.  Which of the following are OpenSolaris?  Duh, they all are.
>>> They simply have different audiences:
>>>
>>>      The OpenSolaris Operating System:
>>>       At the minimalist end, we have a "miniroot" consisting
>>>       
>> ...
>>
>>     
>>> Today we have SX, SXDE, Schillix, Belinix, MartUX and Nexenta
>>> as examples of various targeted distros.  If I have a binary
>>> program (say, oracle or my company's accounting package...),
>>> and I want to pick a distro,
>>>       Should I /expect/ my application to just work on it?
>>>       /Will/ it just work?
>>>       Does the distro owner have any expectations in this regard?
>>>     and most importantly,
>>>       How would I tell?
>>>       
>> More than 2 years ago, we did agreee that noone except Sun has the
>> right to call a distro "OpenSolaris" and that Sun shoul/would not do this.
>>
>> I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
>> "Sun OpenSolaris ...."
>>
>> I have problems if this was not labelled with "Sun" as this would cause
>> harm to other existing OpenSolaris based distributions.
>>     
>
> I have yet to see any qualifying statements that indicate exactly
> *how* other distributions would be harmed.
>
>   

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