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From: Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 2, 2006 9:11 am
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?
> 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}.
Well, I understand it means OSOL is much more than a kernel, but I do not see
how that means it's much less than SX. The only thing keeping it from being all
of SX is the non-release of some of the source (yet... supposedly it will be
opened eventually..)
>
> I tend to think of OpenSolaris "upstream" as of piece of code which is
> reusable across *any* OpenSolaris-based distros. I.e. bare minimum
> whichis enough to build minimal console-only distribution.
I understand what you say, but according to even the people who say OSOL isn't
SX, ALL of SX will eventually be opened (as much as possible, anyways..), in
which case OSOL will be the "upstream" of SX. Now yes, it will all be re-usable
across any of the distros, but it won't be a bare minimum. It'll be all of SX,
you can pick and choose what parts you want to use. At least, that is what has
been/is being preached.
David
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