On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 13:19:12 -0400 James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer writes: > > it. What I found was flat out scary. To wit, from the project overview > > page: > > "... the OpenSolaris project does not provide an end-user > > product or complete distribution." > That doesn't mean that _nobody_ does this; it only means it's not a > goal of that one project. I think I confused things by mentioning the 2008.05 distribution. My question isn't about that project or distribution. It's about the OpenSolaris project as a whole. You know, the one "sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. that is initially based on...". > (I'm actually not sure what of the myriad of pages you were quoting > there, and I see no such text on the Indiana page, so if you could > include a URL when quoting things, that'd probably help.) Sorry 'bout that. It's from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/. So is the quote about sponsorship above. > > that already. There appear to be a multitude of distributions with > > questionable interoperability, each having their own preferred > > packaging system. > Indeed; that part is true, and fairly obviously _intentionally_ so. And *that* is what scares me. The headaches from dealing with GNU/Linux being that way just never seem to end. I can't imagine anyone intentionally recreating that, but I'm an outsider. I hope I've overlooked something that explains why I won't have those headaches with OpenSolaris based distributions. > > Is this really the case? Or did I miss a document somewhere that > > explains how the various distributions interrelate in such a way that > > if someone says they're running "OpenSolaris XX", I'll know what's > > installed beyond just the kernel? > I think that if the direction of Indiana concerns you, you should send > that feedback to that project team (the address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- not to the general OpenSolaris > community. Nope, it's not with Indiana. There's nothing wrong with having a single distribution or build that's unusable outside it's intended audience - unless that's the only distribution that exists, and you aren't in that intended audience. Having multiple distributions with their own packaging system, so that it's impossible to reliably produce a software build that runs on them all - that's the issue. thanks, <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
