[osol-mktg] Re: reference distribution

[Eric Boutilier]

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>>>> Belenix has a wow-factor that's pretty cool, and fits on one CD, but
>>>> doesn't ship the JDS consolidation.
>>
>> The Belenix project has definitely laid almost all the
>> necessary groundwork though. So just add JDS to Belenix;
>
> The SchilliX project did do the necessary groundwork.
> Without SchilliX, other distributions would not exists or
> did start later....
>
> J?rg

Joerg -- Sorry, I should have mentioned SchilliX. (I think
I'm using the word "groundwork" in a different meaning and
context here.) SchilliX was absolutely THE pioneering distro,
and I did attempt to capture that in a little historical
piece I wrote on my blog (though it's over a year old now):

http://blogs.sun.com/eric_boutilier/entry/the_genesis_of_debian_gnu

As for the history of Belenix, I think Moinak's blog is a
good place for that. E.g. I think the following -- written in
August 2005 -- is his first post (of many) about the Belenix
development:

http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/opensolaris_comes_alive_on_a

Eric