[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
> Doug Scott wrote:
>> John Sonnenschein wrote:
>>> On 10-Jul-07, at 9:17 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Tim Bray wrote:
>>>>> Remember, every time you take something out that people are used to
>>>>> and seemed to work, you increase the Solaris barrier to entry...
>>>> Absolutely, positively.
>>>> 
>>>> After all, that, in a nutshell, is what Indiana and its bretheren such
>>>> as ARC case 2007/047 and its offspring are all about, isn't it?
>>> Well, why not just ship the GNU userspace on the Linux kernel then? it's 
>>> what people are used to & seems to work... why bother with this "Solaris" 
>>> business at all?
>>> 
>>> Which is ultimately the real question... If we're going to replace 
>>> everything that makes Solaris great with stuff that Linux uses just 
>>> because it's more familiar, why not just use Linux?
>> Why upgrade Solaris? It is perfect now isn't it? Very easy to use. Your mum 
>> could get the DVD and have no problems installing it on the toaster.
>> Seriously. I think you are probably missing that Indiana is not about 
>> deleting Solaris. It is just making it more familiar for a current Linux 
>> user to use, while keeping it Solaris. You can have your cake and eat it 
>> too.
>
> I think John's point was more that why go to all the hassle of baking our own 
> cake if all we're trying to do is make the exact same cake that we can buy at 
> the local grocery store for (possibly) cheaper, and quicker.

However, w/out backing off a single bit from my endorsement of
Tim's statement, what I see resulting (from the
Indiana/SX-NG/OpenSolaris/Whatever New Distro Project) is a
distro that is vastly different (and vastly to my liking) from
Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, etc.

Eric