Martin Bochnig wrote: > 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? > Perhaps it can be interpreted that way - but I see his statement more as being a statement of how we can best serve and grow our community.
The fact that you are opining that someone else sounds a bit hostile cracks me up. > Anyways in my understanding. > I instantly intervened, asked for a clarification, which I didn't get. > It hasn't even been 24 hours yet. > This sounds like closed corporate thinking and ruling. > Why? I happen to agree with it, as do many others who aren't part of the closed corporate world. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.whacked.net _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
