[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Simon Phipps]

On May 6, 2008, at 08:38, Rich Teer wrote:

> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Laurent Blume wrote:
>
>> 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, especially the last two sentences.
>
> You and I think alike, and we're not the only ones.
>
> I'm a Sun/Solaris advocate, but I think that Indiana = OpenSolaris  
> is a
> HUGE mistake.  For the time being, I want nothing to do with the  
> Indiana
> masquerading as OpenSolaris: as far as I am concerned, the canonical
> OpenSolaris distro is SXCE.

I found the "statement of intent" by Tim Cramer at the start of the  
Summit very helpful. He made it clear that Sun's intent is to have a  
successor to Solaris 10 once OpenSolaris has stabilised. It would be  
worth watching the video of that session when it's ready.

S.