Well said, top to bottom! On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, andrewk9 wrote: > > The biggest obstacle here, as I see it, is that Sun has created a situation > where the name "OpenSolaris" is no longer solely theirs to use. It belongs to > the community. If you get OGB approval for use of the name OpenSolaris, i.e. > some kind of community consensus, then that's great. > > If you had started off with a binary distribution, even with some non-free > binaries, called OpenSolaris then the community would have formed around the > distribution. > > At the moment we have "a community + some source code + some closed binaries > on a relaxed distribution licence" called OpenSolaris, and a binary distro > (Nevada) owned by Sun, derived from OpenSolaris, downloadable from the > OpenSolaris website, but not actually OpenSolaris itself. Our de facto > reference platform is Sun's Solaris. We need the de facto reference platform > to be community owned, otherwise this debate about Sun owning the (community > + platform) will always be with us. OpenSolaris is the community. So > logically the reference platform needs to be named OpenSolaris. > > OpenSolaris needs to be the platform, otherwise what is the name of the > platform - ON? OS/Net? Polaris, MyUdix (TM)? what? Why would you want to > invent a new name, when OpenSolaris is by far the most recognisable tag the > (community + code + binaries) already has? > > My own preference for which distro I would like to see become the reference > platform would be Belenix since, in my view, it shows most clearly the way > the platform needs to evolve. By that I mean: 1. Live CD/DVD/USB key, 2. > Improved interoperability with other OSes, 3. Nice eye candy (*never* > underestimate the eye candy), 4. Compatibility with Sun's distro. 5. Fixing > some of the brain-dead stuff in Sun's distro (default password hashing > algorithm "broken as designed", no command completion, the ^H bug, ....). > > Andrew. > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
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