> rlhamil wrote a very good explanation for "obsolescence" Thank you for your explanation.
First let me say that I never wanted a life span of 10 years of this first version of Menhir. Let me explain this a bit: 10 years - we all know that - are generations of technology in the IT world. And , more importantly for OpenSolaris, I wanted to create a starting point of developer and user training for next overseeable - is this an English word? can I say it so? - time in which it is more or less guaranteed that the included operating systems would run as intented by their devs. Add to that the fact that I am going to target both Qemu and Xen as platforms of Menhir. As I said that one of _the_ reasons of Menhir will be knowledge distribution I always knew that for example Qemu which even runs on Windows would be a "perfect" platform to show, teach and train the future users of OpenSolaris. Even as the free software zealot I am it is in my opinion better that a beginner just installs OpSol under Qemu on Windows, make himself a "educated" user and then fully change his working system to OpSol than he just "broke" his Windows installation with an experiment to install SXCE and someway it don't succeeds. With that said plus your comment that Menhir in some future will only run under Qemu (and alike emulators) I think that Menhir will perfectly fulfill its goals: to bring together the developers from several free software projects "destroying" the rivalry in the heads of some devs, to grow new developers, to create a infrastructure building system. As I am here making the first steps in designing the first version of this distro I didn't write about the plans I have for the next version: To bring the base systems included in Menhir to the pkgsrc package management - for this I already have a starting point as the NetBSD guys made some work toward this goal -. I am planning 7 to 11 months of development for this - I want really tested packages and documented work so I am making the development time frame wider than narrower -. Then - here it goes interesting for you - the third version of Menhir will make some months of work to make the then actual systems of OpSol,FBSD,NBSD and Slack and into the pkgsrc base system. So you can be sure that more actual Menhir versions will be released in the more or less coming future. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
