[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

[Eric Boutilier]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:31:12AM -0700, John Plocher wrote:
> > Is it important (as an architectural goal...) that we could say
> > 	"runs on OpenSolaris[1]"
> > in the face of multiple "OpenSolaris based" distros?
>
> There is some mention of this at
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/trademark_faq/
>
> > That is, if someone develops an application for "Sun's Nevada release",
> > *should* we expect it to, at a binary compatable level, just run
> > correctly on any other OpenSolaris-based distro?
>
> I strongly suspect that binary compatibility is something which
> certain distributions are going to lose. In fact, so far we seem to
> be running zero from one as far as binary compability - the one and
> only non-Sun distribution (deliberately) breaks binary compability
> with Nevada.

Only temporarily though I think.

> Unless every kernel/library change in every distro goes through an
> ARC-style approval then, in some cases deliverately and others accidently,
> we're eventually going to end up with an interface to something changing.

But I think we can minimize the problem by doing (at least start
planning) an base reference distro ASAP.

Eric
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