All :
After much thought I feel motivated to ask for a new community based
distro. It is my opinion that the trademarked OpenSolaris distro is more
product than passion. It is more controlled resource than community creation.
We are in a situation after some five years of the OpenSolaris community where
one can not simply download sources and build something runnable. We can not
even bootstrap the kernel without special corporate internal knowledge and
resources. There are still large numbers of closed bins, trap doors and secret
hallways just to build the current OpenSolaris code base. There was a brief
flash of light with Ian Murdock and "Project Indiana" but this too seems to
have fallen entirely into the hands of the corporate bureaucracy. I see no
reason to talk about or ask about anything called 2010.03 anymore.
It is stagnant.
We need the right sort of community people to gather together and to get
the required code from here, there and elsewhere to get a kernel booted that
has a shell prompt. Get past i18n. We need to identify the road blocks and the
secrets and drag them out into the light. Address them one at a time and attack
them as needed.
I am talking about a community reference distro that anyone can use, build,
download and redistribute.
--
Dennis Clarke OpenSolaris Governance Board Member 2010
[email protected] <- Email related to the open source Solaris
[email protected] <- Email related to open source for Solaris
http://www.blastwave.org/ for 64-bit ready software for Solaris
http://www.opensolaris.org/ for everything else.
_______________________________________________
distribution-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss
