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

[Mario Goebbels]

>>    I would like kernel modules and userland binaries compiled on OSRI
>>    to run, unmodified, on any dist that calls itself based on OSRI.  I
>>    know this sounds a little silly (and maybe pretty obvious), but for
>>    any of you that have had to develop and support software on Linux,
>>    and in particular, the Linux kernel - you know how important this
>>    stuff is.
> 
> Compatiblitiy is less trivial than you might belive but without conformance 
> tests, we cannot claim anything about compatibility of siftware or 
> distributions.

Obviously, guaranteeing a compatibility baseline for the whole system
isn't practically possible.

What should be made sure is that there's a conformance test where you
can hand out sort of a e-badge, that tells an user that the kernel
hasn't been screwed with custom patches (unlike what every major Linux
distro does). This would be of interest for driver developers.

While I don't expect distro makers doing their own kernel tweaking on
their distros yet, you have to plan ahead so that this conformance thing
is in place for the case OpenSolaris actually takes off like the Sun
management (i.e. JSchwartz, Murdock and cohorts) hopes.

-mg

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