[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Indiana, just a Linux clone with different kernel?

[Richard Elling]

Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Jennifer Pioch wrote:
>
>   
>> I thought Indiana is not a Linux clone and makes better choices, yes?
>> Maybe not and the Indiana developers - whoever they are - are just
>> resistant against any community input. Indiana appears to be a Linux
>> clone with Solaris kernel, GNU tools and no real improvements.
>>     
>
> Could you please expand on this very interesting set of observations ?
>
> You state:
>
> "Indiana appears to be a Linux clone with Solaris kernel, GNU tools and
> no real improvements."
>
> If Indiana was indeed a "Linux clone", i would have expected it to contain the 
> GNU/Linux kernel. But, as you state, Indiana delivers the Solaris kernel. Unless 
> i have missed some drastic changes occurring in O/N over the past couple of 
> days, the Solaris kernel was not the GNU/Linux kernel.
>   

+1
most people forget that most of the gnu tools existed long before Linux.
In other words, using a gnu-ish user environment has never meant using 
Linux. 
 -- richard