[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Sean Sprague]

Laurent,

> But then again, I'm feeling rather left out. I'm a Solaris user. I don't
> want to become a Linux user. Or if I want, I'll use Linux. So now, I'm
> honestly starting to wonder what's the point of my being here. I wanted
> to make Solaris a better Solaris. Not to make Solaris a Linux lookalike.
>   

+1

We do now need to differentiate now between OpenSolaris.com (the distro) 
and opensolaris.org (the other aspects away from the distro). I guess 
that things in OpenSolaris.com will not in fact change in future 
releases. The direction that OpenSolaris is going seems to me to have 
been fixed - Linux feel with opensolaris underneath. I personally find 
the former  unpleasant, even down to the extent of bash (Yuk!) being the 
default shell.
 
If you wish to make Solaris a better Solaris (which is a truly laudable 
goal), then persevere with opensolaris - I guess that there are still 
plans to allow some external opensolaris developers to be able to make 
direct putbacks into the codebase at some point in the future; and as 
such, you will be able to contribute directly to opensolaris, and 
ultimately through the relevant processes/procedures, into Solaris. 
Where/if/how this has any relevance to OpenSolaris, I do not know...

Conversely everything could be completely up in the air with regards 
eventual external contributions to opensolaris/OpenSolaris/Solaris. This 
is for others to comment on.....

Regards... Sean.