Jason White wrote:
to satisfy my preference for open-source, I would prefer a distribution which
does not install binary-only components by default, and which is entirely
built with free tools (rather than Sun's closed-source compiler). It should be
Unfortunately, certain parts of the OS are binary only (due to licensing
restrictions) and are required.
It would be great if you could lend a hand to the Emancipation project:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/emancipation/
You can find out what components those are here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/
The majority of the ones that are not open yet are because Sun does not
have the rights to release the source to them, or because they are
obsolete and the cost of opening source code is not cheap (legal review,
etc.).
The Emancipation project will likely have more information.
able to build itself, of course. I know a lot of work has been done on gcc
support, so this shouldn't be too far away if it isn't here already.
An active user/developer community would be desirable.
Are there any candidates, presently existing or under development?
The distributions I'm aware of for OpenSolaris are all linked here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/distribution/links/
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Shawn Walker
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