On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <[email protected]> wrote: > If OpenSolaris is losing its current users it's not because of technical > issues. > [...]> If a new distribution is being built just because OpenSolaris 2010.3 is late, that's a weak excuse
No, this is not the reason or excuse. > because when it's released the motivation to work on the community distro is > gone. IMHO, people will contribute to this project if they feel there is an > welcoming environment, things are decided in plain sight, they can have a > stake at it, etc.... > Simple point as John Plocher pointed out in another thread. Is it possible today for someone to pick up the sources and build a bootable kernel + userland, essentially OpenSolaris from scratch kind of thing ? This simple answer is No. It is a grey area with next to none documentation and clarity. Of course one can be happy with the Distro Constructor but you are then pulling binaries already provided by Oracle/SUN. We are talking about starting from source code. It took me 3 months of hacking madness to figure out stuff for BeleniX when I started off back in 2005. I believe Joerg has gone through a similar experience with Schillix, Martin with martUX etc. Additionally there are closed bits in OpenSolaris like libc i18n support, kernel crypto framework, some commands, few drivers etc. We do need opensource replacements for these, so lets have a common platform for pooling resources and getting these done. I'd consider this as an effort to build a common reference core. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ distribution-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss
