Comments on: Thoughts on a probable opensolaris.com

By: Anton Parol

Anton Parol — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:35:37 +0000

Its so true. Its really easy to GET with ubuntu, and thats probably been one of its biggest stengths. People don’t feel burdened trying to use it, meaning they give it that little bit more time. Given how strongly Jonathan feels about getting Solaris out there, it can only be a good thing!
Ant

By: Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Order is important

Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Order is important — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:41:19 +0000

[...] Glynn Foster: “Get. Use. Learn. Love. Spread. Only then, in my opinion, can we even think about Contribute…” [...]

By: tecosystems » links for 2008-03-17

tecosystems » links for 2008-03-17 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:18:10 +0000

[...] Life is so good, it gets better every day » Blog Archive » Thoughts on a probable opensolaris.com a look at some of the ideas for opensolaris.com; i think some of the top level nav elements are a bit abstract, but it’s otherwise pretty good (tags: opensolaris.com glynnfoster informationarchitecture) [...]

By: EdwardOCallaghan

EdwardOCallaghan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:16:11 +0000

“developers.opensolaris.org and use http://www.opensolaris.org as that front end.”
+1
That’s a fantastic idea!
Regards.

By: Damian Wojs?aw (trochej)

Damian Wojs?aw (trochej) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:48:22 +0000

I believe such refactoring would do much good to OpenSolaris. I think that while oopensolaris.org is a great resource for us, who know what we are talking about, people that I encourage to try are often confused. On the other hand I’m not sure if .org and .com are proper ways of managing this difference. I think it’d do more sense what Alberto Ruis already said.
What really is missing is a strong and simple message what really OpenSolaris is, something along the lines: “OS is a core and a basis of an operating system kernel and userland tools. For a working distribution look here”. And it ought to be bold, big letters and a first message on the page.

By: News » links for 2008-03-16

News » links for 2008-03-16 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:08:12 +0000

[...] Thoughts on a probable opensolaris.com This looks like a pretty rational step. All the development of the code-base (and optionally the distros themselves) on OpenSolaris.org and all the user/sysadmin forums and downloads on opensolaris.com (tags: OpenSolaris) [...]

By: links for 2008-03-16 | sun

links for 2008-03-16 | sun — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:22:50 +0000

By: Alberto Ruiz

Alberto Ruiz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:50:18 +0000

I agree with most ideas there, but to be honest, I can’t see why this should be in opensolaris.com, instead of moving what we have to developers.opensolaris.org and use http://www.opensolaris.org as that front end.

On top of that, I’m pretty sure that “.com” is not going to be welcomed to the people who sustain that Sun is not very sensible to the community culture.

On the other hand, setting up yet-another-opensoaris-thingie is going to raise even more the barrier to understand the project. I’d rather simplify what we have, with focus on all the issues you just pointed.