Well think of it this way: Illumos has had about a decade or so to establish its name. Either it’s just a toy OS to people these days or it has a name worth rec

Well think of it this way: Illumos has had about a decade or so to establish its name. Either it’s just a toy OS to people these days or it has a name worth recognizing, beyond and independent of the late OpenSolaris project. If the only name recognition that it has is in relation to OpenSolaris, it will never be more than an OpenSolaris fork. Personally I’m glad we can think of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD as something other than forks. For whatever similarities they retain, they also have different objectives, methodologies and identities. I hope too the Illumos project can build its own brand cachet, and I don’t see it doing that by remaining merely an OpenSolaris fork.