--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > > I think that is something very much deep inside the > community - the > > love for secrecy. > > Every project starts "in the secret". If you like to come > up with something > that looks seriously and that is working, you need to > prepare it. Even SchilliX > was not done within 3 days between June 14th and June 17th > 2005 but in the six > months before and few people did know about this. > > Eric Raymond said: "Release early and release often". He > did not say release > immediately..... > > > Remember "Secret Six" - many years ago when Sun > stopped Solaris x86. > > Then OpenSolaris Pilot, then many OpenSolaris > projects, that were done secretly. > Jörg Some group name like the 'Deep Six' or 'Illuminus' (i.e. 'Illuminati')? Ref: http://www.illumos.org/projects/site/wiki/Announcement The Illumos website looks grand and it seems a well-spirited direction to foster community development and focus for an OpenSolaris-based distro. Not the 'one-person' show of many community distros where resources and funding are always constrained. The Illumos founders are a very capable group. I imagine visionary leaders like Mark Shuttleworth or Garrett D' Amore leading the pack. As they say in the movies, godspeed.... ~ Ken Mays P.S. Possible Illumos trailer? http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/NTV_clone_wars_trailer.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
