Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 types of OpenSolaris-based distros:
a) GNU-centric, those who trying to re-use GNU/Linux as much as possible b) Solaris-centric, those who trying to mimic Solaris as much as possible But I'm hoping that both (a) and (b) will be *much more* compatable than any two distros in GNU/Linux world. And the reason for my hope is that we are using the same "Least Common Denominator"(LCD) - OpenSolaris(tm) which is not just a kernel but userland too and developed under the single roof. In my sense, LCD will preserve inter-distro compatability. The amount of OpenSolaris code that big that I really doubt it is possible to successfuly fork OpenSolaris. Which is a good thing too. Erast On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 00:31 -0800, Scott N. wrote: > What concerns me about the ramifications of Sun having an OpenSolaris > and the subsequent "distro's" that will, or have come out, is that > Forking and eventually all the stuff I hate about modern linux will > plague OpenSolaris. > > Nexenta is the one I am most excited about and it runs fine on my > other PC at work, but it is so different from Solaris already that I > feel I am not even learning Solaris. I understand the reasoning behind > Nexenta in having an opensolaris distro based on GNU userland, but > fear seeing opensolaris turn into a "distrowatch" type mess in a few > years. > > In its infancy I already had a "huh?" when I went to go manually > configure Xorg with xorgconfig like I would in Solaris or Solaris > Express but noticed the location of Xorg was slightly different as was > xorgconfig not even being there. I am assuming because Nexenta was > built using Debian source and hence is using the linux filesystem > layout? > > Why? Why not at least stick with standard Solaris layout so relative > newbies can have consistency in going to one opensolaris based machine > to possibly a Solaris Server he might run across, etc. > > This is what I hate about Linux (major forking, 100's of distro's, > incompatibilities between most of them. If I take a liking to one > linux distro and have to go administer someone elses linux server > which would be based on their chosen distro, I have to take unnessary > time to relearn subtle differences, etc. I came to Solaris expecting this > to NOT happen. Is it inevitable? Not to mention how much development energy > is deflected as everyone seems to migrate towards there chosen distro instead > of say one common kernel/userland that is then rolled out to all the distro's > who then just add their touches. > > How come BSD's don't suffer from this problem and have remained > consistent and have not forked enough to be different nor even gone > into distro hell? > > > Thanks > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
