[osol-mktg] reference distribution

[Tim Foster]

Hey All,

 - here goes!

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:07 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote:
> Question...
> if a community-driven reference/base distribution of OpenSolaris were 
> created with only the open sourced components

Ok, why ?

> I think this could considerably help the evangelism (advocacy, whatever 
> the accepted PC word of the day is) of OpenSolaris.

So replace "Solaris Express" with "OpenSolaris Reference", and continue
down our path of gradually replacing the closed portions of Solaris with
the (presumably newly written) open components and you're on to a
winner.

At the same time, we'd continue moving the production of (what was
called) Solaris Express out into the open. Wouldn't that achieve the
same thing ?

 [ and leave Solaris Express Developer edition where it is, with
   support, etc. as before ]


I guess I'm thinking that building a community reference edition would
be a bit of a duplication of effort, given that there's already a group
of people paid to do release engineering, program management, etc. of
something that includes the OpenSolaris source base. Now, it's not fully
open source, but as I understand it, that's something that Sun are
trying to fix.

If the problem we're trying to solve is that Solaris Express isn't
freely distributable, then can't we just[1] make it freely distributable
and re-brand it as $foo ?

> Bonus points if we could make it fit onto 1 install CD media.

6 CDs for Solaris Express is pretty bad I admit.

	cheers,
			tim

[1] Yeah, I know - the same way most coding problems are /just/ a simple
matter of programming
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf