OpenSolaris is just source. You're confusing a distribution with
OpenSolaris. kernel.org is not a Linux distribution. You don't
download it and use it. You download it, get some other pieces, put it
all together, and you have a distribution. And if you don't want to go
to that much work, you get a pre-built distribution from someplace else
(Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, ....)
Same thing here, where the pre-built distributions are SXCE, Nexenta,
Belenix, SchilliX, MarTux, etc. Since you need source from several
places to build a usable distribution, yes, it's a bit of work. But
people are working on solving that problem as well.
You seem to want everything needed to build a distribution in one spot.
By design, we *don't* want that, since it would mean duplicating a lot
of open source communities out there (X.org, GNOME, ....).
Alan DuBoff wrote:
That's not the point Stephen, the point is that today Xorg is not a part of
the sources that I'm calling OpenSolaris, where AlanC is considering
everything to be on the OpenSolaris site to be what OpenSolaris is.
This is all fine and dandy, but this doesn't help folks download, install, and
use OpenSolaris. We don't have a distribution yet, however, the way Sun
markets it to the press and community, it's the open source version of
Solaris.
The packaging tools are on OpenSolaris also, but I don't think they're a part
of ON, so the package tools are not in the sources.
Most people that want to run OpenSolaris need to install Solaris Express
first. This is a distribution that includes Xorg, GNOME, CUPS, et al.
How come I don't see Sun market OpenSolaris as including Xorg?
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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