[indiana-discuss] Name of Distro?

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, John Sonnenschein 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.

I agree.

Ian: In this regard, Linux and Solaris/OpenSolaris evolved in very
different ways. In OpenSolaris land, there already exists the optimal
touchstone: the Nevada core (and no less important, the environment and
processes from which it generates). In Linux land the common touchstone is
just the kernel. Pardon while I wax poetic, but that is no less than a
_profoundly critical_ difference between Linux and OpenSolaris.

Eric



>
> 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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