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

[Shawn Walker]

On 20/06/07, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.."

Exactly. If someone wants to "try Linux" right now, people tell them
to go try Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.

I'd like for it to be the same way with OpenSolaris. "You want to try
OpenSolaris? You can download Indiana, Belenix, SchilliX, Martux, etc.
Or, if you want something mission critical, go download Solaris!"

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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