Re: [SSI-users] OpenSSI features matrix

[Daniel 'F. L. <did...@go...>]

On 13/05/07, Robert Wachinger <no...@ro...> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:38:08PM +0200, John Hughes wrote:
> > Robert Wachinger wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:56:49AM -0400, Roger Tsang wrote:
> > >
> > > Hm, I am not sure, whether I can believe the "Yes" to the feature
> > > "Distro agnostic" ;-))
> > >
> > OpenSSI neither believes or disbelieves in the existence of distributions.
> >
> > Clear?
>
> ;-)
> No. Because OpenSSI knows, that it exists in different incarnations
> specifically for a limited set of distros. Nothing, that _I_ would call
> "distro agnostic".

I would have to agree, here, as "distro agnostic" suggests that it can
be installed and made fully functional on any distro without much
effort on the user's part (besides basic configuration and standard
compilation if required - ie not having to figure out compilation
errors). But it is not possible to do this, because not all the
different distros' versions of the invoke-rc.d/service/rc-config
scripts, for starting and stopping services, are supported
"out-of-the-box", nor are 2.6 kernels which are required by modern
distros.

All this leads to the conclusion that OSSI is _not_ currently
distro-agnostic, but in the future it may become semi-distro-agnostic
(there's no way that every distro can be supported by an ootb system
sue to the fact that OSSI fundamentally changes the operation of the
base distro - eg. customised init system).

-- 
Regards,
    The Honey Monster aka Daniel Llewellyn