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I was looking at it from outside of the support issue, but from an =
industry related topic.=20

I mean, lets talk about Solaris support. I believe that its still there =
in the Apache release while none of the commercial distros support it.=20=


To your point, I can see how it could confuse some people...=20


On Sep 24, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Arun C Murthy <acm@hortonworks.com> wrote:

>=20
> On Sep 20, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>=20
>> If, OTOH, someone is experiencing a problem that is probably down to
>> core Hadoop and just happens to be using a particular distro, I think
>> user@hadoop is a perfectly reasonable place to discuss that, and
>> there's no particular need to hide the fact that a specific distro is
>> in use, it's not as if The Name Cannot Be Spoken or something.
>=20
> That has it's own shades of gray - different vendors may choose to =
include different patch-sets in their distro, even for 'core Hadoop'.
>=20
> In such cases, you get issues/bug-reports which are, at best, =
confusing to users of Apache Hadoop... etc.
>=20
> As Andrew mentioned, it seems simpler to keep things on Apache lists =
limited to Apache Hadoop.
>=20
> Arun