[ogb-discuss] Device Driver Community

[Hugh McIntyre]

Alan DuBoff wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> Well, I hope that at some point it will. Nexenta is a case where they 
> provide a distribution that uses opensolaris as a base. However, is 
> their Xorg the same Xorg from the packages that AlanC & Co. provide on 
> opensolaris? I suspect they grab the sources from the mainline of Xorg. 
> And if they do, it's ok, it's Xorg software, not opensolaris.
> 
> What I can download and build today that is distributed as opensolaris 
> is really ON, and that is my distinction. I realize we have other open 
> source software in Solaris. All of it is not on opensolaris, but by the 
> definition I'm given it is certainly a part of opensolaris.

I have to agree with Keith and others that consolidations such as JDS 
and X *do* have use to end-users.  Not just ON.

For example, consider someone using Solaris (the whole WOS) who likes 
the whole thing, but wants to make one or two specific modifications to 
JDS apps.  Sure, they could download the original GNOME sources, but 
they'd have a much harder time making sure that it behaved the same as 
JDS except for their one or two edits.  Similarly for someone who wants 
to run a slightly-hacked X server but still the rest of the Sun 
customizations.

Hugh.