[indiana-discuss] Re: [indiana=discuss] Name of Distro?

[Stephen Lau]

Sara Dornsife wrote:
> Anil Gulecha wrote:
>> On 6/20/07, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 20/06/07, Sara Dornsife <Sara.Dornsife at sun.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > Though I also like the point you're making too. Having a catchy 
>>> name is a
>>> > > good thing for spreading awareness.
>>> >
>>> > Calling it OpenSolaris would be a good thing for building awareness of
>>> > OpenSolaris :)
>>>
>>> But rather unfair because the community was told they couldn't name
>>> their distribution that.
>>>
>>
>> I would tend to agree with this. This is unfair to the Opensolaris
>> distributions that are already available.
> 
> How do we make both an OpenSolaris-named distribution (which is one of 
> the problems that we are trying to solve here - create what so many 
> people come to the site to get - OpenSolaris) and not be unfair at the 
> same time? Although that sounds like a sarcastic question, it is not. 
> It's the problem we need to fix with the naming.

The overriding point of contention is the confusion as to what 
OpenSolaris is.  By naming the distribution the same as the community, 
we'd be overloading what "OpenSolaris" means.

The only solution for that, that I can see, is to either:
a) Change the name of the distro
b) Change the name of the community
c) Suffix the names (i.e.: everyone make a concerted effort to say 
"OpenSolaris Distribution" vs. "OpenSolaris Community")

The powers that be seem to not like (a).  The community will almost 
certainly vote no on (b).  And (c) just seems to have potential for 
further confusion.  If we couldn't get the messaging straight to begin 
with, we'll undoubtedly fail at (c).

So I'd like to hear from the people in favour of calling Indiana the 
"OpenSolaris Distribution".  If that *were* to happen, how would you 
denote the community?  And the projects?  How would you explain to the 
layperson that OpenSolaris Project WhizzyFoobar isn't in fact part of 
the "OpenSolaris Distribution"?

cheers,
steve

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