I know that it may seem trivial, but as I look around me, Ubuntu is taking over the systems world, and it's not because it's the best-engineered OS. It's because it's approachable to people with little experience, because it makes it easy for them to learn the OS, and because the name is memorable.
I don't want this project to suffer the fate of Sun, a company with brilliant engineers and technology that never got widely adopted because they couldn't communicate to a broader audience. I'll jump off this thread for a while now, to save your delete finger some effort :D Blake On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Volker A. Brandt <v...@bb-c.de> wrote: > Hello all! > > > As my finger slowly turns red from pressing the d key again and again > (yes, Emacs VM, the One True MUA, uses d to delete mails), I keep asking > myself: Does anyone really think that OI (and by extension Illumos) > will be used or even looked at more just because it is renamed according > to the naming-scheme-du-jour? > > Come on. Illumos is a great name. Us in-people know how it came > about, and the rest just don't care. OpenIndiana was perfectly > logical at the time, too. > > "Linux" is not the greatest of names either. It became what it is > today for any number of reasons, but not because of the name. > > Should the domain names, the infrastructure, the mailing lists, etc. > etc. all given up because of some fleeting hope of attracting one > more n00b? > > There must be some more pressing issues. > > > Regards -- Volker > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Oracle Solaris > Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ > Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 > Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss