2010/5/3 Ignacio Marambio Catán <[email protected]> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:36 PM, bsd <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll wait for the hate messages after I post this. > > > > I personally don't get the Solaris/OpenSolaris distributions. Sure, I > understand when Sun said that OpenSolaris was open source (although most of > it is released under binary license agreements), and that OpenSolaris is > "supposed" to be the RHEL/Fedora model for Solaris 10 development. > > you're confusing opensolaris with opensolaris the distribution. > opensolaris is a set of consolidations and communities around them. > most of the code in those consolidations is indeed opensource > check for example the ON consolidation > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+onnv/ or the X > consolidation http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+x-cons/ > Opensolaris the distribution is a sun project and while it is the > result of project indiana inside the opensolaris community, most of it > was driven by sun's business need. Finally, lets say youre right and > both opensolaris the community and opensolaris the distribution were a > merketing stunt from sun. so what? what's the problem with that? i > think that not only was it a perfectly valid move but has benefited a > lot of us greatly. we can not see the guts of the best os in the > planet. > Solaris 10 was before opensolaris was released and it is of no concern > to the opensolaris community > > This is becoming unproductive. The initial question of this thread was whether the RHEL/Fedora model could be useful to Solaris/OpenSolaris and what it would take to get there. I was arguing that encouraging people to create various distributions is a waste of resources and there should be only one OS/distro called "OpenSolaris" which Oracle and the community should make everything they can to aggregate people around and not spread the efforts.
Please don't use that as an excuse to start flaming everything around. If open sourcing Solaris was a marketing gimmick or not doesn't matter anymore. We are where we are and, at least most of us, want to see this project moving forward in a healthy way. That is, what's problema and how it can be fixed ? Instead taking the easy path and replying to flames alone, please read the previous emails and try to contribute with something useful. I find it insanely stupid how flames get replied very fast but emails posing serious questions wait days for a single reply. If there are other members of the community with a real interest in seeing this project moving forward, please present your opinions and ideas by replying to ptribble's email. </rant> -- Giovanni
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