[osol-mktg] reference distribution

Sara Dornsife Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM
Mon Apr 23 15:36:28 PDT 2007


Steve,
I don't see a downside....
Sara


Stephen Lau wrote:
> Question...
>
> if a community-driven reference/base distribution of OpenSolaris were 
> created with only the open sourced components (I'm thinking ON+X+JDS), 
> it could be freely redistributable via 3rd parties, mirrours, and 
> BitTorrents, right?  (since the OBL that covers the closed-bins allows 
> free redistribution)
>
> I think this could considerably help the evangelism (advocacy, 
> whatever the accepted PC word of the day is) of OpenSolaris.
>
> Bonus points if we could make it fit onto 1 install CD media.
>
> cheers,
> steve


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