[indiana-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Joerg Schilling]

"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Ubuntu thrived despite Debian's long years of existence.
> > >
> > > Slackware continues despite RedHat's rise.
> > >
> > > SUSE continues despite RedHat.
> > >
> > > Mandraiva continues despite ... etc.
> >
> > Does Suse claim to publish "Linux"?
> > Does Ubuntu claim to publish "Linux"?
> > Does Redhat claim to publish "Linux"?
> > Does Mandriva claim to publish "Linux"?
>
> That isn't the same. Linux is a kernel; the material provided by
> OpenSolaris comprises a complete operating system.

Not true: OpenSolaris is not even a complete basic OS.

Guess why I had to work hard to create the SchilliX distribution to make
a bootable environment from the OpenSolaris bits? Also note that the tendency to
replace useland tools by GNU tools let's OpenSolaris approach the Linux idea
of only being a kernel.

Jörg

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