Ken Mays wrote: > Think of the distro market from the CentOS/Redhat and Ubuntu/Debian/Kubuntu > models. You can't technically leave out the Linux kernel and call your distro > a Linux kernel based distro - can you? Now a step up the ladder, CentOS is > Redhat-based. Kubuntu and Edubuntu are Ubuntu-based. All distros. So Indiana > can have distros based from it and at least developers will know they can > reuse packages between the distros (we hope). Doing it at the kernel level is > just not good enough anymore! > > ~K >
That's one thing. But what I am referring to is this wording (posted to the advocacy list a day ago) : Simon Phipps wrote: > > We are at a turning-point in the OpenSolaris community, since it's > clear (to me at least) that our initial assumption of a kernel-based > community with many external distributions is no longer a good model. > This is not least because (as Ian points out) it fails to deliver the > easy ability for there to be a large pool of compatible applications. > > S. > "is no longer a good model" - it sounds a bit hostile to the existing distro-communities, doesn't it? Anyways in my understanding. I instantly intervened, asked for a clarification, which I didn't get. This sounds like closed corporate thinking and ruling. Also, when a top-manager is talking about "in the OpenSolaris community", what does he have in mind: [ ] a true motivation-driven community like over at Blastwave or Nextenda [ ] those individuals here who are truly willing to work on a distro such as Indiana, in their spare time, night and day, all the time offering to work, or already working on getting this or that stuff running, enthusiastically [ ] employees Okay, my points are not convenient ones, are not welcome. Including my repeated offer to push SPARC_Indiana (to merge it with the SPARC-MartUX framework). That makes me wonder, but I'll leave it there. And I take it positively, that I finally have the time to fix important stuff: In the real world, where the laws of Input__generates--->>__Output are still valid, to some extent. M. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
