----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, June 2, 2006 10:19 am Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: What is OpenSolaris?
> David J. Orman wrote: > > Now I'm hearing the opposite, and I'm waiting on an official > response. > I don't know about an official response. Just because any particular > person @sun.com says something doesn't make it the gospel truth any > morethan anyone else in the community. The truth of the situation, is, right now OSOL is not self-sustaining (nor anywhere close) and it is maintained/operated/successful because of @sun people. I'm not saying nobody is contributing except @sun folk, that is absolutely not true. Just the majority of development of the code itself is @sun folk. In other words, if Sun suddenly decided OSOL is only a code dump, I'd be at their mercy, and all of my work would have been for nothing. *That* is why I asked for some sort of official-ish response from Sun, because reality as it is NOW, is Sun's opinion/choice is the deciding factor at this point. Sun also controls SX/Solaris, and since they are my primary interest, I needed to know what OSOL means to them, so I can determine if/where/how I should apply myself. > Then you've found your place. The code base you see in > OpenSolaris is > the code we are using to build the next version of Solaris, which is > released as Solaris Express while it's under development. Other > distrosuse various portions of it to build their own distros like > Nexenta,Schillix, and Belenix as well. > > In fact, build 41 should be the first SX build in which pretty much > all the > code you see on opensolaris.org is included, since the JDS > "Vermillion"project (GNOME 2.14, Firefox 1.5, etc.) that's been on > opensolaris.org for > a while has integrated into that build. That's awesome! David _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
