Alan Burlison wrote:
>
> ----------
> Solaris Express, Community Edition is Sun's binary release for
> OpenSolaris developers (code named "Nevada"). It is built from the
> latest OpenSolaris source and additional technology that has not been
> published in the OpenSolaris source base. This release is unsupported.
> Developers can build the OpenSolaris source by using this release as
> the base system. It is updated every other Friday.
> ----------

Because it's been marketed as "OpenSolaris", so people expect to
download an installer for OpenSolaris. If you think the Register guy is
the only one to have complaints, you're wrong. The first time I went to
opensolaris.org, I wondered "where the F*** is OpenSolaris?" I know I'm
not the only one.

Thanks to Jim for providing more of the project's history. Being a
newcomer, I'm not aware of everything that was involved in making
OpenSolaris happen, and it's important to realize the progress that has
been made - it was, and continues to be a great undertaking.

Perhaps the answer to all of this is just to make an OpenSolaris distro
happen - and if it works great, if not move on and learn from it. Do
folks have the patience for that type of experimenting?

-JM

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