[oi-dev] New Project Lead?

[Ken Gunderson]

At Mon, 3 Sep 2012 11:13:07 -0500,
Nick Zivkovic wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Joerg Schilling
> <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 3 September 2012 16:34, Joerg Schilling
> >> <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >> > Correct, OpenSolaris is an umbrella and we need to find a way to coordinate
> >> > it's development to keep enough community behind OpenSolaris.
> >>
> >> except of course that we cannot and do not own any right to the name
> >> "Solaris" in any way shape or form, hence the reason that we need to
> >> refer to the OS/Network as "Illumos".
> >>
> >> for us, OpenSolaris is dead, because we cannot use the name.
> >
> > Some people created the fork "Illumos" but failed to get the whole community
> > behind them, so using the name Illumos does not work.
> 
> Ok. I see. Can you please direct me to these other forks?

Hello Nick:

I suspect Schillix may be one such reference:

<http://schillix.berlios.de/>
 
> Also, explicit reasons for the lack of acceptance of Illumos by
> "other" community members, would be helpful. We can learn from them,
> and possibly make changes accordingly (open source, etc, etc).

I think Joerg touched on this on his email to Alasdair that was
inadvertently directed to the list.  Check his initial reply in this
thread.

Peace-- Ken