On 6/15/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:43:02PM -0700:
> Todd Walton wrote:
> > Anybody actually used it yet? Is it getting anywhere? What would you
> > use OpenSolaris for, that something else can't do? Will OpenSolaris's
> > strengths remain unique to it when other OSes start taking advantage
> > of its "open" nature, and start copying code?
>
> Is copying the code allowed? Wouldn't that also enable a fork? I thought
> Sun was extremely paranoid about forks and structured their licenses
> such that it could not happen?
And if you copy code into Linux, would you have to then refer to it as
OpenSolaris/GNU/Linux ?
I don't see how Sun is paranoid -- thier fears seem quite justified,
given that the reaction to the announcement in some quarters was "Oh,
good, we'll just take anything nice that they have and copy it. They
can't do the reverse without GPLing everything, at which point we'll
copy the rest, if it's better than what we have."
There are a couple of distributions that combine OpenSolaris kernel
with GNU utilities. Here is one: < http://www.gnusolaris.org/> .
Here is another one, that seems to have a higher proportion of Solaris
utilities:
< http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_home.html > .
Belenix comes as a Live CD with all the advantages/disadvantages that implies.
carl
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