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

[Anil Gulecha]

On 6/21/07, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
>

++++1

Indiana should not be stealing the thunder even before someone has the
chance to try out a competing opensolaris distribution
(Nexenta/Belenix).

Instead having a catchy name would keep the distribution in memory
(someone suggested Stellar or Flare) and have it easily identified as

"I want to try out opensolaris?"

short answer : "Sure.. go to opensolaris.org and download flare/stellar"

Long answer :"There are many kinds of distributions: <launch into
explanation about S10 SXCE SXD.."

Anil