I’ve tried to put together a document describing a proposal for migrating uname sensibly (as well as providing the justification for doing so) with every attempt to minimize compatibility problems. 

At least one user has indicated he’s afraid of the email storm.  So am I, to be honest. So unless you have something really constructive to add — and have READ the document and UNDERSTOOD the ENTIRE proposal, please refrain from comments unless they will actually contribute new thoughts or ideas.  Let’s not have a giant time wasting thread, ok?  Email me directly if you’re not sure.

That said, I do want thoughtful and constructive critcism of the proposal.  Is it unworkable?  If so, why?  Do you have a better idea? (Also, let’s keep this to people who will be *impacted* by this — release engineers, software engineers, downstream distributors.  I don’t want it to devolve into a marketing debate, please.)

I don’t think, as that one user indicated, that just putting our heads in the sand and continuing to remain SunOS 5.11 forever is the right answer.  Our kernel is evolving, and we have no way to even talk about this evolution, and the confusion with Solaris is unfortunate.  Its well past time we addressed this — in fact I’m sorry I didn’t make this proposal much earlier — probably this should have be done from day 1, instead of now. :-/