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

[Shawn Walker]

On 21/06/07, Alvaro Lopez Ortega <alvaro at sun.com> wrote:
> BVK Chaitanya wrote, On 21/06/07 17:41:
>  > Alvaro Lopez Ortega <alvaro at sun.com> writes:
>  >>   Calling it OpenSolaris would make things easier for beginners and
>  >>   would also link the project with the community. I cannot see any
>  >>   disadvantage on the proposal, actually.
>  >
>  > Where do Belenix, Nexenta, and others stand then? Are we going to break
>  > the community just for beginners sake? Aren't they OpenSolaris
>  > distributions?
>  >
>  > To me, it looks like calling Indiana OpenSolaris distro exactly means
>  > asking other distros to stop their work and redo based on indiana.
>  >
>  > Indiana is too late to be called The OpenSolaris Distro.
>
>    That sounds quite negative. I would rather thing that it isn't too
>    late for doing the right thing.. with them.
>
>    As we have discussed previously, OpenSolaris ought to be a binary
>    distribution. The source code is free, so it's up to each one to
>    build whatever they want, although we do need a reference binary
>    distribution in which the rest of derived distribution can be based
>    on (while they continue being compatible).
>
>    We do know how messy it has gotten for the Linux community. I bet
>    that many of us have had to deal with this problem before. It's
>    nasty; and we definitely do not want to repeat it in OpenSolaris.

I fail to see how that will happen here. We already have a reference
distribution for compatibility: Solaris 10.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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