Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> It is my believe that the fact that OpenSolaris has *everything* leads
> many community members to believe they are building a product.  They
> aren't.

Except now we are doing that too.    Indiana is an opensolaris.org project,
that the community is contributing to.   Do you want to set the precedent
that a project chartered by the OpenSolaris community to build a distro is
not part of the world the OpenSolaris ARCs review?

> In the Linux world, its pretty obvious:
> 
>    kernel:                               from linux.org
>    core userland:                    from gnu.org
>    desktop:                             from gnome.org (or kde, or who
> ever)
>    specialized components:   too many to list,

distributions:   fedoraproject.org, ubuntu.com, debian.org, etc.

> In OpenSolaris, its less obvious:
> 
>    kernel:                               from opensolaris.org
>    core userland:                    from opensolaris.org
>    desktop:                             from opensolaris.org
>    specialized components:   from opensolaris.org

distributions:  opensolaris.org/os/projects/indiana, genunix.org/.../belenix,
  berlios.de/.../schillix, nexenta.org, milax.org, etc.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
         Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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