Michael Ramchand writes: > Uwe Dippel wrote: > > Alas, that's the one thing that it is not. (Just search the archives, if in > > doubt.) > > I'm not working for SUN, only summarize what I picked up on the way here: > > LU was bought from a third party, cannot be redistributed therefore, is > > maintained only, and will be replaced by a new system as soon as possible; > > at least for OpenSolaris. > > > That's not exactly true. The fact it that OpenSolaris has a completely > different packaging and installation system, therefore LU is simply not > relevant to it. There are NO redistribution issues with LU, there's just > no point. :-)
LU is not available as source due to licensing problems, and will very likely never be available as source. See: http://opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ and click on the "Install" tab. The fact that the original LU was just a collection of shell scripts, and that the current LU still consists of a large number of scripts that are obviously shipped in a 'readable' form is unimportant in this instance because they're shipped as part of software with a suitable license. The previous poster's message (at least in this respect) was correct. (I'm not sure where the statements about the system not being "safe" came from, but they don't seem to be true.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
