On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
1. We need a better answer to the question, "What is OpenSolaris?" Ideally,
it's something tangible, i.e., something people can download and install.
The current "OpenSolaris is just the source code, like kernel.org, and Sun
and others take that code and make operating systems out of it" is
confusing.. Bottom line, the market thinks OpenSolaris is an
operating system ("OpenSolaris is the community version of Solaris..
Right?"). I consider this a big part of the "familiarity gap".
I completely agree but don't like the term market, since I don't see this
as a product that is marketed. Even if I was to agree that it is a product
that should be marketed, I certainly wouldn't want any of the folks that
were involved with Solaris marketing involved with it. Why pick people
that have failed at the same job before?
2. With all the negative opinions about Linux around here, I'm surprised
to have to say this, but: Multiple distributions without a reference for
compatibility is *not* a feature of Linux we want to emulate!
When you say "we", who do you refer to?
I know, I've
spent the better part of the last 5 years trying to clean up the mess,
with mixed results. It's far easier to create an ecosystem of compatible
implementations if you *start* with a reference. All attempts at
building a reference after the fact in Linux have been an abject failure.
I certainly don't agree with that, and think you will find that by
creating a reference you create the same mess than Red Hat vs the rest of
the world created in the Linux space.
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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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