Brian Nitz wrote:
>
> [ ...]
> It think we could get the most efficient sharing of opensource effort if
> we worked with the other distributions to make a community architecture
> review or at the very least an equivalent to the LSB standard to work
> towards. Cross platform and cross release stability is one of linux's
> major weaknesses and there is no reason for us to emulate that.
+.75 :)
I think that having a distro (or two) that is really, really different
from standard Solaris is actually a very good thing to have... that is
_IF_ it's different in all the right ways.
On that recent LugRadio segment about OpenSolaris, when a LugRadio guy
asks Adam Leventhal something like: I'm an Ubuntu user, should I try
OpenSolaris? Adam's answer was: Yes -- try Nexenta.
So in other words, I for one am thrilled that we have precisely that
answer for Ubuntu and other Linux users/developers who have never tried
Solaris. For the vast majority of them, the existence of a viable
GNU/Solaris project and distro makes Solaris (and ultimately ZFS*,
Zones, DTrace, SMF, etc!) finally worth trying for the first time.
-Eric B.
P.S. For future reference, opensolaris-discuss should be a last-resort
forum. E.g. for conversations like this one, gnu-sol-discuss
or desktop-discuss are good forums to use.
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