>Well, in my mind, OpenSolaris was on the way to becoming a "download >iso", "burn disc", "insert into target machine", "boot to CD-ROM", >"install", and "run"... Like, hum... Solaris maybe...
No, not at all; that was never the intention. That's what distributions do; they collate bits of software and make it into a distribution. Solaris is an example of such a distribution. Should Sun make a second distribution which does the same thing but contains only the bits already opensource or available in source elsewhere? No, it would be silly for Sun to maintain two distributions. Others willmake other OpenSolaris distributions. >That's what I'm expecting to see when people say: "We've open-sourced >Solaris", or "Solaris is Open Source" Strange; if I read "they've opensourced product X" then I expect to be able to download the *source*; not the installable product. >So my expectation is: An open-source distro based on Solaris >technology with ZFS et al, that will be "the next version" of Solaris >that people put on their servers to run their enterprise, home, media >center, embedded systems, set-top boxes, cars, bootable usb keys, >etc... > >I'm fairly sure I'm not the only person with that expectation. Yeah, but that's what Solaris is and that's what the distros are. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
