On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote:
Given how negative this community is on Linux and how positive it is
on compatibility, I'm floored this is even an issue. This is not the
feature of Linux you want to be emulating!
FWIW, I don't think we can stop incompatibility.
Indeed, it's not desirable - it would might things like an OpenSolaris
distro targetted at small-footprint devices, or Nexenta.
And to echo-chamber Casper's comment: The compatibility distro exists
already, it's Sun Solaris. Ensuring the required levels of compatibility
are kept is something Sun will invest in /independently/ of OpenSolaris,
as part of Solaris engineering.
So possibly Indiana doesn't need to try be a reference for
compatibility..
Echoing Alan's comments: Just do what you think is best for Indiana,
given your goals for it (which, as Alan has stated, aren't immediately
obvious to all here). You don't need a rubber-stamp from the OpenSolaris
community to build an interesting distro.. :) - you'll automatically get
participation if you build one though.
Personally, I'd love to see an OpenSolaris distro with a nice balance
between Solaris and GNU/Linux compatibility: One that remained
reasonably compatible with Solaris, but had the freedom to change things
incompatibly, or experiment, where it made sense. E.g.:
- GNU tools the default, as much as sensibly possible
- Remain essentially compatible with Solaris C library ABIs and APIs
- should be "free", as part of Suns' engineering work on Solaris..
- Sys PKG'ing, but with fine-grained pkg dependencies
- If this worked out, it could benefit Solaris too eventually.
- package-centric upgrades, with some pkg-get/apt like tool
- Metronomic release cycles
That'd grab me at least..
regards,
--
Paul Jakma,
Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems, Scotland
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x73150 / +44 15066 73150
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