On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, John Sonnenschein wrote: >>> On 6/20/07, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> d Debian? >>>> >>>> Thank you for making my point for me. Do we really want OpenSolaris to >>>> have the same problems? That's the path we're currently on.. -ian >>> >>> Sorry if I don't see it as a problem per se. >> >> I agree. >> >> Ian: In this regard, Linux and Solaris/OpenSolaris evolved in very >> different ways. In OpenSolaris land, there already exists the optimal >> touchstone: the Nevada core (and no less important, the environment and >> processes from which it generates). In Linux land the common touchstone is >> just the kernel. Pardon while I wax poetic, but that is no less than a >> _profoundly critical_ difference between Linux and OpenSolaris. > > You don't get it. > > It doesn't matter if the common touchstone is just a kernel > or the kernel and the entire userspace. The source > code doesn't make a platform. The binaries make a platform. > > That's why we need OpenSolaris to be a binary distribution. > > Trust me. I've lived this mess for the last 10 years...
What? Please clarify: You've done what you've done for the last 10 years. That's good. But compared to, and, as you clearly have implied, superior to whom and what? Did you intend to cast that statement in the context of comparing what you've done to what various people here (the OpenSolaris community, Sun and non-Sun) have done for the last 10 years? Eric > and > it's been my job for the past 2 to try to clean it up, > which turns out to be very difficult to do after the fact.. > > -ian > -- > Ian Murdock > 650-331-9324 > http://ianmurdock.com/ > > "Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
