[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[John Plocher]

>>  The target for OpenSolaris2008.05 is developers, 
> I thought one of the concepts was 'look at all this cool stuff

As with any community effort, there isn't only one answer to this
type of question, which is why I suggested that we try to keep things
in perspective.

Just because one group is focused on enabling linux familiarity and
doing a bunch of modernization does not imply that either the work
is complete or that other groups can't do anything.

Rather than expecting *every* effort to be perfect on day1, wouldn't
it be better to take smaller steps and start with "good enough", and
then improve it?

I think that is what is being attempted here.  IMO, getting "linux
stuff working on OpenSolaris" is simply a first step.  Right now,
we have "nothing"; after this work is done, we will have "something".

Once we have "something", we can work to improve it.  We could
enhance it to take advantage of the many cool OpenSolaris features.
We could add new features that does stuff on OpenSolaris that can't
be done elsewhere.  etc.

Walk before you run.  Perfect is the enemy of "good enough".

   -John