Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
Erast Benson wrote: Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 types of OpenSolaris-based distros: a) GNU-centric, those who trying to re-use GNU/Linux as much as possible b) Solaris-centric, those who

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: GNU The youngest set of tools (starting around 1986). My current idea is to put them into /usr/sps/* as Linux users may expect them in the same hierarchy as the rest of free software. It may

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-16 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very true. dpkg's alternatives is a good thing. Also there are other ways to achive that, i.e. playing with execv() for instance. Did you hack libc to do this? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-16 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 18:36 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very true. dpkg's alternatives is a good thing. Also there are other ways to achive that, i.e. playing with execv() for instance. Did you hack libc to do this? No. not yet. But at least we've

[osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread Scott N.
What concerns me about the ramifications of Sun having an OpenSolaris and the subsequent distro's that will, or have come out, is that Forking and eventually all the stuff I hate about modern linux will plague OpenSolaris. Nexenta is the one I am most excited about and it runs fine on my other PC

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread Erast Benson
Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 types of OpenSolaris-based distros: a) GNU-centric, those who trying to re-use GNU/Linux as much as possible b) Solaris-centric, those who trying to mimic Solaris as

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 types of OpenSolaris-based distros: a) GNU-centric, those who trying to re-use GNU/Linux as much as possible b)

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: - The current hierarchy on Sun Solaris is just using a planless aggregation of free software on various places. There is no reason why GNOME related programs (that are completely useless without X that could modify the PATH) made it into /usr/bin while

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread David Schanen
On 11/15/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 types of OpenSolaris-based distros: a) GNU-centric, those who

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Ross
Quoting from http://www.linuxbase.org/policy/charter.html: The mission of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of specifications that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable conforming software applications to run on any compliant system. In addition, the LSB will

Re: [osol-discuss] Is 'forking' inevitable here too?

2005-11-15 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:26 -0600, David Schanen wrote: On 11/15/05, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very good point and a right concern (to some degree) IMHO... As J.S. mentioned before, in the future we should expect at least 2 types