On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 08:02 -1000, David J. Orman wrote:
> To elaborate just a tad, because I can sense a bit of disagreement here,
> I'd like to clarify the "distrubutions" popping up. Even if OSOL were 100% of
> SX's source code, I mean completely available, in the same form Sun uses to
> build/package SX, people could make distributions based on it.
> Nexenta, ShillyX, etc are examples. I believe Nexenta is a good example,
> they make a fair amount of changes to what is available in OSOL,
> in the sense they move stuff around, rename things, etc. They could rip
> everything out but the kernel in fact.
Nexenta tries to preserve core OpenSolaris infrastructure and makes
changes with reasonable degree to remain OpenSolaris
"binary-compatible". That means OpenSolaris is much bigger than just
kernel but much less than SX{CR}.
I tend to think of OpenSolaris "upstream" as of piece of code which is
reusable across *any* OpenSolaris-based distros. I.e. bare minimum which
is enough to build minimal console-only distribution.
Erast
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