[indiana-discuss] Distro proliferation and causes of incompatibility (Was: Name of Distro?)

[Ian Murdock]

Eric Boutilier wrote:
> I totally agree as I think everyone does. that is indeed a problem in the
> Linux world, but it's intrinsically less of a concern here (way, *way*
> less, IMO).
> 
> In short, in OpenSolaris land, the existing standard base of compatibility
> is a completelely different animal than Linus' is:
> 
> In terms of Linux, the attributes of the base (Linus' kernel project) led
> to all those incompatible distros. By contrast, the intrinsic attributes of
> our existing base and the environment from which it generates (which I
> trust you've noted are radically different/better in this regard) leads to
> far more, though admitedly not absolute, unification and compatibility
> across distros and other projects, IMO.

Are Solaris Express and Nexenta compatible today? I.e., can you build
a package on Solaris Express and install it on Nexenta and vice versa
without any concern about whether something might break? -ian

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