[indiana-discuss] Name of Distro?

[Shawn Walker]

On 20/06/07, Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at sun.com> wrote:
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, John Sonnenschein wrote:
> >> On 6/20/07, Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at sun.com> wrote:
> >> d Debian?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for making my point for me. Do we really want OpenSolaris to
> >>> have the same problems? That's the path we're currently on.. -ian
> >>
> >> Sorry if I don't see it as a problem per se.
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > Ian: In this regard, Linux and Solaris/OpenSolaris evolved in very
> > different ways. In OpenSolaris land, there already exists the optimal
> > touchstone: the Nevada core (and no less important, the environment and
> > processes from which it generates). In Linux land the common touchstone is
> > just the kernel. Pardon while I wax poetic, but that is no less than a
> > _profoundly critical_ difference between Linux and OpenSolaris.
>
> You don't get it.
>
> It doesn't matter if the common touchstone is just a kernel
> or the kernel and the entire userspace. The source
> code doesn't make a platform. The binaries make a platform.
>
> That's why we need OpenSolaris to be a binary distribution.
>
> Trust me. I've lived this mess for the last 10 years, and
> it's been my job for the past 2 to try to clean it up,
> which turns out to be very difficult to do after the fact..

"Trust me" is not very convincing. A more reasoned response would be
appreciated.

So far, you haven't convinced me. Linux has been a source base for
years and has experienced no ill effect in popularity (though it has
in engineering arguably) from not having once place where you
"download Linux (an OS)".

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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