On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > In case that Indiana launches as THE "OpenSolaris", Sun did make a > mistake.
No, that is not clear yet, so I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. What Sun said was that Indiana would be a base for all other distributions to be built upon, and that is what I have discussed myself with people in the past. AFAIK, it is Sun's intention to have a large repository of open source software that would not be a part of the ON. After this model is implemented (i.e., an actual repository is created, with various open source software that is packaged and available with the new packaging system over the wire) this would be available to all OpenSolaris distributions, whether they can or cannot use the OpenSolaris name. Either way it doesn't really matter much, you use Schillix and presumably will continue to do so. IMO, there was a lot of reading between those lines in Bill Franklin's message, people were reading stuff in there that I certainly don't think Bill intentionally wrote. Roy saw a section in there that said "Piss Off", as an example. So far I see a lot of whining about a bunch of nothing. Oh, and BTW I saw that the CIFS client went back today...that's probably bad to have a CIFS client in OpenSolaris, right? I think the community will just need to get used to the fact that Sun has an engineering department working on OpenSolaris and there's a lot of stuff going on in a lot of communities and projects of OpenSolaris today. More and more is being pushed out to the OpenSolaris community. Now, should all of those people come and ask you what they should do? Or do you think it would be better for them to keep working on the work they are doing for OpenSolaris already? The IPS packaging project has had information up on the opensolaris site for a while, have you looked at it? Do you think it will work? Did you listen to last month's video on ustream, Bart and Danek do talk some in there about the packaging, as does Jim Hughes. (there's only one video) http://ustream.tv/channel/svosug-presentation/ Sorry for the quality of the video, the other option was to just not broadcast/record anything, so at least you can see something. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
