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

[Joerg Schilling]

Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM> wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >
> > > But I think we can minimize the problem by doing (at least start
> > > planning) an base reference distro ASAP.
> >
> > If we like to talk about a reference distro, we first need to talk about
> > the extent it should cover.
>
> Do you mean the extent of the operating system stack it should cover?
> Yes, absolutely. How about: it should be as simple as possible but no
> simpler (or whatever the heck it was that Einstein supposedly said :-))

We cannot cover the whole Sun Solaris as Sun Solaris includes things that 
may never become OpenSource.

In general, it does not make sense to include things that cannot be made
OpenSource as this would exclude ports to other architectures or platforms
(e.g. PPC).

For the rest, it may make sense to name packages thay may become OpenSource
(in case there is a rough vision when the package will become OpenSource).
But note that SchilliX is evolving indepently of this as long as the
expected time for things to become OpenSource is too far in the future.
Also note that I expect other OpenSolaris distros to come up. I am sure
this will happen once I am ready to share the build system with other
people and once I got libm to compile on SchilliX. So there is a big
chance that SchilliX-0.3 is the last single non-Sun OpenSolaris 
distribution.

I am interestet in the best possible binary compatibility with Sun Solaris
but I am not sure about other distros. In special, I am not sure how
people who talk about a GNU/Solaris distro like to manage this. If they
are e.g. going to replace the content of /usr/bin with the binaries you 
usually find on Linux, there will be a planned deviation.

P.S. I consider the ability to correctly run scripts from Sun Solaris to 
be part of the binary compatibility and for this reason even replacing
/bin/sh with bash will break this compatibility.

Jörg

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