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

[Dennis Clarke]

> Dennis!
>
> No flames here ;-) But...
>
>> The name, as I see it, is OpenSolaris. Because that is what it really is.
>
> I must disagree. OpenSolaris is the open codebase (and associated toolset);
> if you care to count this). It is
> empirically _not_ a distro IMO; and thus any distro, whether "reference" or
> otherwise, cannot/should not be called
> "OpenSolaris".

I am more interested in the overall success of the project. I joined the
pilot back in 2005 or so and I was always under the impression that one day
we would have something called OpenSolaris that I could install. This is the
expectation that most people have and there has been no end of confusion in
the user community and in the press because there really has been no such
thing as OpenSolaris. Not by their definition of the word. Not even by ours.

People talk and talk and talk about names and about rights and about the
project constitution and at no point can an ordinary user just download
and install OpenSolaris.

This project is a failure, in my opinion, until a new user can do that
very simple and perfectly reasonable thing. They don't want to hear
about fooiX or about name space conflicts. The ordinary user just
wants to install it and then work with it without confusion.

I feel that trust is lost so long as the argument continues. I can not
look a user in the face and say "no, you can not install OpenSolaris
because that is not an operating system. That is a project name and so
what you really want is BeleniX or SchilliX or fooiX."

The knee jerk reaction, every time, out there in the real world will be
a shrug and a walk away. Every time.  People just want to install
OpenSolaris.

> As the distro is produced by SUN, maybe it should be called "SUNOS" -
> "SUNOpenSolaris" ;-)

Maybe it should be called OpenSolaris because it will be produced by a
community project of the same name.

Dennis Clarke