On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 20:39, David J. Orman wrote:
> > It is confusing... Or may be we should think of OpenSolaris as set of
> > projects which could be {re-}used as a bricks to build OpenSolaris-
> > baseddistributions.
>
> That's what I'm trying to clarify. If that *is* what OSOL is,
OpenSolaris is that, but that's not the only thing that
it is.
> then I don't belong here.
Hey! *Everyone* who would like to have anything to do
with anything that involves OpenSolaris belongs here.
> I'm not a distro builder (never will be), I'm not contributing code,
But you *are* contributing to the overall community.
> and my interest is Solaris/SX. The only reason I contribute ideas/etc
> is because I thought OSOL is what becomes SX is what becomes Solaris.
> It seems I was horribly mistaken.
Not at all. I too am primarily interested in OpenSolaris because
it and Solaris proper are closely interwoven, and any code I
contribute is with the primary aim of improving Solaris. And I
think that the statement "OSOL is what becomes SX is what becomes
Solaris" is also true, and I'm sure that OpenSolaris is other
things too. The one thing that OpenSolaris isn't is restrictive
or exclusive .
(Perhaps I'm being needlessly shortsighted in ignoring the
other distributions. But while I'm not - currently at any
rate - having any involvement with them, I'm glad that they
exist and are contributing to the diversity of OpenSolaris.)
--
-Peter Tribble
L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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