[oi-dev] New Project Lead?

[Nick Zivkovic]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Nick Zivkovic <zivkovic.nick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Depending on viewpoint, OpenSolaris is either alive or dead.
>>
>> However, it is indisputable that OpenSolaris is also ambiguous, and confusing.
>>
>> The distro is dead, but has been resurrected as OpenIndiana.
>>
>> The OS is alive, but it is called Illumos (to avoid ambiguity).
>
> The latter is a false assumption.
>
>> Illumos is the only "OpenSolaris" out there, in the sense that it is
>> an open source descendant of Solaris 10, with extras.
>
> Also a false assumption.

Why is it a false assumption? Are there other projects that forked OpenSolaris?

Can you please elaborate on what your contention with illumos is?

I am new here, so please forgive my ignorance :)

Thanks.

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