On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A big -1 from me
We don't need YetAnotherDistro to jump start the community ( some might argue
that Ian-diana does the opposite, since it's entirely a Sun initiative ), we
need open development.
Open development agreed and things are moving in that direction from
what I see. I do feel that a distro to jump start a larger user base
that is different from Sun's current clients. I do not see why Sun
being involved in it would drive new users away unless Sun adds enough
strings to their OpenSolaris distro such that they discourage new
users.
As it stands we have a bug database behind sun's firewall that stuff occasionally goes
missing from and other times is entirely useless ( "see description" isn't a
useful description ), and a code repo which is similarly behind sun's walls.
That is another problem and not related to this thread. Please start
your own thread if you must.
As for the distro idea itself, if sun wants to build another distro, that's
their perogative, but we already have a couple fine unencumbered distros as it
is ( BeleniX, Nexenta ), so what's the point of this one, beyond another
product that Sun Microsystems can sell support for?
Even if it is only so that Sun Microsystems can sell support for it,
it is not unreasonable for the parent to get a little something back
from their child.
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