A few months ago I wrote this piece about distributions and standardization. Among the main points of the post was the theory that Sun's opening of the Solaris OS would lead to a number of Solaris based distributions, in the same way that the release of the Linux kernel had given rise to a number of Linux distributions. It is, interestingly, becoming apparent to other people that OpenSolaris distributions could well be a reality and as common as Linux - as highlight in the first part of this article points out.