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

[John Sonnenschein]

On 6/20/07, Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at sun.com> wrote:
d Debian?
>
> Thank you for making my point for me. Do we really want OpenSolaris to
> have the same problems? That's the path we're currently on.. -ian

Sorry if I don't see it as a problem per se.

How many people know that DesktopBSD is a FreeBSD distribution that
may be more suited to first-comers? Probably not very many outside the
BSD community, because the "official" FreeBSD distro monopolized the
name. So people come to try out FreeBSD and think it makes a horrible
desktop and jump back to Linux, even though they might've become
hardcore fBSD users had they just started with the other one.

What if someone in the community makes a fabulous desktop distribution
that's even better than what Indiana comes up with, but people still
download the Official OpenSolaris(tm) Distro because hey, it's the one
that carries the trademark...


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