> > 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.
2010.03 is hardly stagnant if it's supposed to come out some time 1st half 2010; let's see if it makes it out by the end of June. Previously, OpenSolaris (the distro) wasn't self-hosting; it needed SXCE to build it. That's supposed to be taken care of now. Progress, even if not the very visible sort. The build system, which looks to be somewhat inherited from earlier System V, is not pretty, fast, or straightforward. Plenty of room for improvement there, I think. The closed libc i18n...not having much luck finding current status on the replacement for that, last I saw was dated Sep 2009 or so. I'm not sure if the picture is as bleak as you paint, nor whether a new distro would actually solve the real problems that remain. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ distribution-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss
