On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Tim Bray wrote: > On Jul 11, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> Nevertheless, I think I see your point, and probably the following >> wording would have been better for my post: >> >> The Indiana/SX-NG/OpenSolaris/Whatever New Distro Project will be a >> certain assemblage of OpenSolaris (Nevada) code -- just as Solaris >> Express is today. That assemblage will result in a distro that is >> vastly different (and vastly to my liking) from Ubuntu, Fedora, >> SuSE, etc -- just as Solaris Express is today. > > I don't quite get it.
Sorry. > Being "different from Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE" is not very > descriptive. Do I take you to mean that in your vision... Not a prediction/vision at all really. More like an observation: There's two parts. First, I'm saying that no matter how GNU/Linux-like we make, say, the command-line in Nevada (and therefore Indiana/Solaris Express) there will still be tons of advantageous differentiators. (Note: That statement is referring not to your current question, but to what led up to your question; namely, the rebuttal of my endorsment of your original statement.) The reason the above is true, which I think addresses your question, is that the components of an assemblage of Nevada (Indiana/Solaris Express) come from a broad array of projects (such as those in the wonderfully long list found on opensolaris.org/projects), which themselves mostly contain a broad array of really, really key differentiators (relative to Ubuntu, etc.), and which reflect all the varying stages of operating systems software design/development, i.e. from conceptual through completion. Eric P.S. I trust you weren't hoping I'd detail the differences stemming from all the Nevada projects (not to mention Nevada-related projects, such as the ones in the Storage Community Group, etc.) that will be differentiators vs. leading Linux-based counterparts... > Indiana will be a > whole lot like OpenSolaris is today? I'm really not being rhetorical or > leading here, I'm just trying to get your view on what we're trying to build. > -Tim > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
