Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Seth,
>
> When I started OpenIndiana, I wanted to avoid the "Linux Distribution
> Fragmentation" issue, so I created a community distro and tried to solicit
> input from everyone and try to keep everyone happy.
>
> I failed miserably. Nobody wants to collaborate, everyone wants to do their
> own thing. Hence the huge number of distros you see before you.
The problem with OpenIndiana is that it is a continuation project for "Sun
Indiana". Sun Indiana however (if ignoring the IPS issue) has been created
using my project proposal for a community based distro I send to Sun in 2005.
Sun did take the ideas from the proposal but did not collaborate...
OpenIndiana for this reason has a heritage of missing collaboration. It needs
to be restructured in order to prevent contradictions with other distros in
order to allow collaboration.
> XStreamOS, DilOS, Schillix etc all have their own goals and agendas, and
> again, have no interest in collaborating.
I cannot speak for the other distros, but SchilliX definitely is interested in
collaboration once possible partners do not act in a way that prevents
collaboration. Note that I am trying to support collaboration since September
2004 and definitely since June 17 2005 when SchilliX was published as the first
OpenSolaris based distro.
What do we need for collaboration?
Well....
- IPS must not be the only packaging
- /usr/gnu must not be the default first entry in PATH
- /sbin/sh may be a link to the Bourne Shell
- scripts need to be open for being able to mount /usr using
the Bourne Shell.
- We need to find a way for versioned libraries to support
as much binary compatibility as possible.
Jörg
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