On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:10 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>If you put them into /usr/bin, you will overwrite existing standard UNIX > > >>tools > > > > This points out some large differences in people's perceptions of > > "what is a Solaris app?" One perspective is a minimalist one, > > concerned with syscalls in libc; another is broader and takes into > > account the utilities and other commands that are part of the system. > > Still others focus on middle ware and libraries, Java, web services, > > etc... > > The biggest compatibility problem of OpenSolaris (compared to Sun Solaris) > is the fact that libm is not part of OpenSolaris. > > In case you don't know, it took me a full month already to work on > FreeBSD's libm in order to be halfway compatible with Sun Solaris and I am not > even shure about the effort that would be needed for a mostly 100% > compatibility. I am definitely interested in a UNIX centric OpenSolaris > distro. Do not expect people who work on Linux centric Open Solaris distros > to put a similar amount of work into compatibility issues.
They will. Simply becase not everything in this world is open-source... Also I do not see big advantages of creating yet another copy of Solaris Express. SchiliX and BeliniX over time will offer thier own features. This will create incompatabilities anyways. We should not expect fully 100% compatability between distros. Compatability to some extent ... yes. This we could achive. We probably might need to create some sort of "Solaris Distributions Foundation"(SDF) which will control the spec similar to LSB. Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
