> On 6/1/07, John Sonnenschein > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I threw in my -1 for a very specific reason, and > that's that I don't > > think that this project benefits us ( where "us" is > the opensolaris > > community ), and is at best a distraction & a sink > for developer > > talent that could be better used towards creating > an open process. > > I disagree. Those developers need input. To get input > they need a user > base. Right now, that user base almost entirely > consists of Solaris > users and not OpenSolaris users which means things > are skewed in a > particular direction.
Isn't SXCE effectively Sun's existing distro of OpenSolaris, with some other stuff thrown in? What is it you think would be so different about another distro? I mean, you can in a matter of minutes change root's shell, the default values for PATH used by various login shells and such, tty defaults, and so on. So one would have a few freakin' different keystrokes. I don't think you're going to see SVR4 packages tossed in favor of .deb, or anything like that (although it'd be interesting to see a repository of SVR4 packages, just for the heck of it; but the first cut of that needn't be a whole lot more than part of an extracted iso online, plus pkg-get or the like). And I wouldn't expect to see binary compatibility broken. Only other thing I can imagine is _maybe_ getting a few more kewl toys a little faster. BFD. Except for drivers and a few cosmetic issues (which one can tweak for oneself), and perhaps the distribution and update model, SXCE already blows Linux away. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
