Alan Coopersmith writes: > girish wrote: > > When the official Solaris 11 is out will it include the source code? > > The source code for most of it will be available on opensolaris.org.
Much of it is there already. Underlying many of the original poster's questions seems to be a misunderstanding of what OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 actually represent. I think it's very important to note here that OpenSolaris is an evolution of Solaris 10. It's not like we invented some new and completely distinct source base in order to produce the OpenSolaris code. Instead, for each new release "N," we start with the source code for release "N-1" and start modifying it. In this case, we started with Solaris 10 (which grew out of Solaris 9, which grew out of S8, 2.7, and so on), and ran through the legal process to release it. Thus, what you see in OpenSolaris today is the "latest and greatest" of the code. Though there's a lot of new and changed stuff, a fair bit of it is either changed only slightly or essentially unchanged since S10. So, if you're looking to understand S10, OpenSolaris would be an excellent way to do so. This is why marching backwards in time to release S10 (or S9 or anything older) is a nearly worthless task. We're releasing updates and patches to those, but the main development is (and always is) done in the current release -- which is OpenSolaris. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
