[indiana-discuss] Improve supportability though a single, unencumbered, unique release name.

[Dennis Clarke]

> Brian!
>
>> As someone who supports and works to help others find support on various
>> Sun products, I have a suggestion for Indiana which could make a
>> significant difference in making the release supportable.  Settle on a
>> single, clear, google-unique, keywordable, unencumbered name prior to
>> the release.
>>
>> Imagine this.  You've installed an indiana 1.0 release and have a
>> problem with the panel.  So you search google:
>>
>> A google search on "indiana" gives 397 million results.
>> A search on indiana 1.0 gives 668,000
>> A search on indiana panel gives 619,000
>> A search on indiana gnome-panel gives 5380
>
> Agreed on all the above.
>
> I just learned from Wikipedia that residents of Indiana are known as
> "Hoosiers" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana
> ). So my first suggestions for the "final" name for indiana is "HoosOS" or
> "HoosIX", the latter being referenced as an
> atomic test in Nevada of 3.4 kilotons on 03/28/62...

Personally, and I wear my flame suit here, I think we need a reference
distro from which all distro's are born. If OpenSolaris is to be a
successful open source project then it really does need a distro named
"OpenSolaris" such that we can download and install "OpenSolaris". We can
build "OpenSolaris" and we can hand it out at a trade show. We can build
package repositories and software services that are for "OpenSolaris".

I don't think we should compare ourselves with a Linux distro or Windows or
OS/2 for that matter. This is UNIX and ipso facto so is OpenSolaris. I think
we need to brush aside the past and the past twenty years of software names
and to ignore the Linux crowd comparisons. This is a separate and new
project here with a very valid open source license.

I really do admire SchilliX and BeleniX. I think people have poured blood
sweat and some tears into derivitive distros and I salute them for their
efforts. With personalities and emotions pushed to one side we are now
facing a third year of this project and some dreams need to be realized and
consessions made if necessary to achieve unity.

The name, as I see it, is OpenSolaris. Because that is what it really is.

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Dennis Clarke