Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > But I think we can minimize the problem by doing (at least start
> > planning) an base reference distro ASAP...
<snip>
> We cannot cover the whole Sun Solaris as Sun Solaris includes things that
> may never become OpenSource.
Of course.
> In general, it does not make sense to include things that cannot be made
> OpenSource as this would exclude ports to other architectures or platforms
> (e.g. PPC).
I completely agree (but I hope that doesn't come as a surprise.)
> ..
> But note that SchilliX is evolving indepently of this as long as the
> expected time for things to become OpenSource is too far in the future.
> Also note that I expect other OpenSolaris distros to come up...
Well yes, of course. (Are you really directing these statements at me?)
> I am interestet in the best possible binary compatibility with Sun Solaris...
OK, now I'm pretty sure that you're directing these statements at
others and not me, because I'm sure you know that I already know this.
> but I am not sure about other distros. In special, I am not sure how
> people who talk about a GNU/Solaris distro like to manage this. If they
> are e.g. going to replace the content of /usr/bin with the binaries you
> usually find on Linux, there will be a planned deviation.
In case this helps, there is a GNU/Solaris mailing-list initiated by
Sun engineers:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/gnu_solaris/
No doubt that the GNU coreutils are becoming almost a defacto standard
among the broader UNIX/Linux user community. So I'd say that the
near-term emergence a GNU/Solaris distro is a certainty. It'll be
popular for reasons of personal preference not compatibility.
> P.S. I consider the ability to correctly run scripts from Sun Solaris to
> be part of the binary compatibility and for this reason even replacing
> /bin/sh with bash will break this compatibility.
I am (FWIW) really happy that you are sticking to a strict philosophy
of compatibility with Solaris. In fact I'll even go out on a limb and
say that compatibility will be such a key differentiator for SchilliX
that it will be the most successful overall non-Sun distro.
Eric
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