[indiana-discuss] Credits to Joerg Schilling for having created ...

[Brandorr]

>From my understanding, with Indiana, there won't be a need for
additional distros, as it will be all things to all people. (Thus the
desired name OpenSolaris)

Seriously though. How can someone make a distro out of Indiana
binaries without it being anything but Indiana?

-Brian

On 10/25/07, Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
> > Martin Bochnig wrote:
> >
> >> * the first distro
> >>
> >> * the first documentation plus full src changes considering how to
> >> _clone his_ work
> >>
> >> * the first distro booting into amd64 mode (except Xorg, at first)
> >>
> >> * in fact the first distro ever capable of booting from USB sticks
> >> (Summer 2005!)
> >>
> >> * his valuable "Base-kit" for distro-re-creation:
> >> http://www.genunix.org/distributions/schillix/ftp/schillix-0.3-base-kit.tar.gz2
> >> (attention, wrong suffix)
> >> and http://www.genunix.org/distributions/schillix/ftp/
> >>
> >> This came into my mind when thinking about OpenSolaris' history: About
> >> all the other (later) distros, including x64/x86-MartUX mBE, which could
> >> also be considered a "Super-duper-SchilliX"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > A careful reader poked me: Well, I didn't forget cdrecord(, -Pro-DVD,)
> > star, smake / s-tools, maintaining mkisofs, etc etc etc ...
> > That's just beyond the scope of this mail.
> > My motivation has been, that I had made some noise about the x64/x86
> > version of "my own" "distro".
> > Afterwards I would have felt bad w/o sending out this credits-message:
> > Crediting somebody who really deserves it!
> > I find it important to symbolically thank the _right_ persons.
> > SchilliX's achievements sometimes seem to go under, in today's fancy
> > superficial world.
> > Despite the fact that they are still being used by the more frequently
> > used/mentioned/praised distro.
> > Well, this reminds me of Indiana ...
> > So now that the jobs are done, "we" are going to shift to a different
> > "model", where no external distros are desired anymore. That's how thank
> > looks like.
> >
> I would be really  disappointed if there were no more distro's after
> Indiana  was released.  The purpose of Indiana project, as I understand,
> is not to prevent new releases but rather enable users to create new
> ones easily.  I am sure you will agree that creating a new Opensolaris
> distro today is very hard.  It requires a lot of specialized knowledge.
> On the other hand, people are able to create linux distros to suit
> various needs much easier.
>
> That is why one of the first deliveries of Indiana is a distribution
> constructor.  The liveCD will be built using this.   I hope that the
> community can pick this up  expand and innovate.  Here's an in
> interesting article that someone sent me on how one can use a distro
> constructor type of tool in Linux.
> http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=214545,00.asp
>
>
> -Sanjay
>
>
>
> >> Some applause for him!!!
> >>
> >> --Martin Bochnig
> >>
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