Thoughts on CommunityOne and OpenSolaris
Sun finally pushed out its Project Indiana yesterday, in the form of a packaged version of OpenSolaris that looks quite a lot like a Linux distro — minus, of course, the kernel that gives Linux its name. On the one hand, I’m pleased to see any FOSS project moving forward. On the other hand, I’m wondering what problems Sun can solve with OpenSolaris that it can’t solve by participating in the Linux community?
The OpenSolaris release was timed to coincide with Sun’s CommunityOne conference yesterday, where I was invited to give a talk on openSUSE and appear on the distro panel with community leaders from Ubuntu (Jono Bacon), Fedora (Karsten Wade), and OpenSolaris (Glynn Foster) and moderated by Sun’s Barton George. (We also recorded a podcast shortly thereafter, which should be released in the next few weeks.)
Removing redundancy
The panel discussion was probably one of the most lively, and certainly the most fun, that I’ve been on. One of the things that we all seemed to agree on — there wasn’t a lot of strong disagreement on any topic, believe it or not — is that there’s a great deal of room for additional collaboration between projects to remove redundancy between distros and the efforts to fix bugs in upstream projects.
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