Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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? >
If you have any insight as to the differentiation between opensolaris.org and opensolaris.com? I believe the Indiana project of OpenSolaris is sometimes cast as a reference distribution or as a preview (but not clear as to what it is a preview of). In the first case (and probably the second - I can't tell) this just implies to me one organization is trying to wear two hats. That's fine. >> 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. > These are three very different beasts. It would be fun to pursue this, but not on this thread. It would be good to note that RedHat, SUSE and others are also such distributions, which make no pretense of being "communities". >> 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. > Very to the point. Why does the "community" get to make the product decisions for one specific distribution (indiana)? That said, I see my "digression" is leading this off-topic. My bad. Please focus on the stuff above the "digression". - jek3
