On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:39:13 -0400 James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer writes:
> > 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...".
> Ah, ok. But the problem is that the "project as a whole" is a giant
> pile o' source. It's not any particular distribution.
Any software project is a giant (or maybe not so giant) pile of
bits. It's the community that surrounds them that provide their
character. The GNU/Linux project has no single control, and we've
talked about the results. The FreeBSD community has a single control,
so that even though there are multiple distributions, there's a base
that's shared between them all, and you can expect non-base components
that are shared to be built the same way on them all - including the
package system.
> I believe that the Indiana project intends one day to produce exactly
> such a "reference distribution" -- one with which all others will need
> to be (or will become) compatible in order to use some sort of
> trademarked reference.
>
> The whole area, though, is fraught with politics and misinformation,
> so I *strongly* suggest that if you're interested in such matters,
> then you ought to be talking to the Indiana project team. The folks
> working on general OpenSolaris projects aren't necessarily the right
> targets of such a discussion.
Ok, *why* is Indiana project team the right group? What makes *their*
distribution special? Or maybe it's what makes that team special, such
that their distribution can become a baseline without buyin from the
rest of the community, which your suggestion implies is the case?
> Hence the reference to Indiana. They're the folks who are charging
> off in the direction of a reference distribution, so why not talk with
> them?
Because I don't believe they can produce such a distribution without
buyin from the rest of the community, and hence want to talk to the
broadest possible audience in that community.
thanks,
<mike
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