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

[John Plocher]

Isaac R. wrote:
> 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).

I tend to agree, but the devil is in the details...

Could you take a stab at producing this matrix - or at least
the column labels for the features/requirements that you might
expect to see?

A concrete example would be extremely useful about now :-)

> 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 

Sounds like your definition of "compatibility" is closely related to
"has the same kernel"...

I'm looking forward to seeing what your important requirements might be.

   -John