Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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...
Then it seems that you have a different background than a typial Debian
maintainer.
> 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.
SchilliX does not like to be another "Solaris Express". Even now, there is the
advantage that SchilliX is freely redistributable. Currently, SchilliX needs to
add basic features, later I expect that SchilliX may even include new dirvers
and software before Sun Solaris will do it. With respect to Ethernet drivers
this is already true thanks to Masayuki Murayama.
> We should not expect fully 100% compatability between distros.
> Compatability to some extent ... yes. This we could achive.
What we need to define is a basic compatibility set.
What Sun People may not yet know is that there cannot be 100% compatibility
with Sun Solaris as long as Sun Solaris is not 100% OpenSource.
> We probably might need to create some sort of "Solaris Distributions
> Foundation"(SDF) which will control the spec similar to LSB.
We need to define a basic compatibility set and we need to define a
way of dealing with incompatibilities that are caused by missing source
availability. It seems that we are at the same "place" as we have been
a year agio when I did write my postulates on OpenSolaris that did end
with the creation of the CAB.
Jörg
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