Eric Boutilier wrote:
Re-thinking this... OSNet maybe needs to be designated special status in the OpenSolaris Community/Project structure. It's "neither fish nor fowl". We don't want to encourage forking at the core (kernel) level, therefore we don't need an umbrella kernel community (which is effectively what an OSNet community would be), because it doesn't make sense to have an umbrella over just one thing.
To clarify what I had in mind when i wrote the above, the following, which was written by John Plocher elsewhere on this thread, better articulates what I meant. John Plocher wrote: = Having Nexenta, Schillix, BeliniX and Solaris distros all based on = a OS.O OS/Netv5.11 release means that ISVs, Blastwaves and other = application providers can all take advantage of a common baseline; = users could choose between the various distros (or, more exactly, = versions of each of the distros) confident that they are all based = on a similar set of OS features. IMO, this, above all else, is what the OGB needs to keep in mind when defining whatever we end up calling our greater-among-equals core Operating System (aka "Kernel" aka "OS/Netv#.##") Community. Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
