[ogb-discuss] What is OpenSolaris?

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> ...
> The darn message (like it or not) has resonated already...

Exactly. At a conference or similar venue, 19 out of 20
questions/comments one hears use OpenSolaris to mean "an
operating system":

- Are you demo'ing OpenSolaris?
- Are you giving out OpenSolaris DVDs?
- Are you running OpenSolaris on your laptop? Can I see it?
- Can I run Linux applications on OpenSolaris?
- Does OpenSolaris have good security?
- Does OpenSolaris only run on SPARC systems?
- Does OpenSolaris run on PCs?
- Does OpenSolaris run on Macs?
- How hard is it to install OpenSolaris?
- I hear there are now some businesses (e.g. Joyent) that run
      OpenSolaris in production.
- I just installed OpenSolaris last week. I like it...
- I just read a review of OpenSolaris...
- I keep hearing about ZFS, does OpenSolaris run ZFS?
- I'm a Fedora user, how is OpenSolaris different/better?
- Is OpenSolaris Free?
- Is there a KDE port (or procmail, or Ruby, or whatever) port
      for OpenSolaris? Where do I get it?
- What are OpenSolaris' strengths?
- What's the difference between regular Solaris and OpenSolaris?
- Where do I download OpenSolaris?
- Etc.

Jim -- you're right on the money -- the fact that this "problem" has
grown at an explosive rate in the last two years (people asking these
"invalid" questions) is mind-blowingly wonderful!

Eric