On 10/25/07, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: > > Apologies, catching up after three contented days of exploring > > national parks. > > > > On Oct 20, 2007, at 10:01, Stephen Lau wrote: > > > >> We are not like Ubuntu in that our projects and our code target > >> multiple distributions. The work happening on Ubuntu's site > >> ostensibly is all targeted towards Ubuntu. The work happening on > >> OpenSolaris.org targets multiple consolidations, multiple projects, > >> and multiple distributions. > > > > Except Ubuntu does result in multiple distributions - Edubuntu, > > Kubuntu, Gobuntu, xubuntu to name but four. > > > Except their distributions all share the same core framework, filesystem > layout, installation and packaging. > Our distributions don't. Ours are considerably more disparate than > Ubuntu's derived distributions. > > Now that may change when Indiana releases - but for the moment, all of > our distributions have separate and distinct identities. > > As for not drawing parallels; I agree to the extent that we should not > > actively model ourselves on another community. I believe that > > highlighting the mis-match of expectations in the cases where some > > people assert OpenSolaris is "just like the Linux kernel" as others > > have done is important though. We are at a turning-point in the > > OpenSolaris community, since it's clear (to me at least) that our > > initial assumption of a kernel-based community with many external > > distributions is no longer a good model. This is not least because (as > > Ian points out) it fails to deliver the easy ability for there to be a > > large pool of compatible applications. > I wouldn't say it's not a "good model" - certainly it seems to be > working for Linux. But I agree it's maybe not the best, or not > appropriate for a fledgling community such as ourselves who simply can't > support the large ecosphere of many external distributions unlike the > Linux community.
Personally, I feel that there is room for both a family of Indiana based distros, and a greater family of non Indiana based OpenSolaris distros. I don't understand why people are making it an either or choice. > cheers, > steve > > -- > stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
