Roger Savard wrote:
> Could anyboby (informed) please explain in short terms what goes into Solaris
> coming from opensolaris. Are the Opensolaris developpers paid by Sun? What's
> the relationship?
> Is Opensolaris the sole base for Solaris evolution or is there a division at
> Sun/Oracle that drives Solaris advancements?
In general, the same development teams at Sun work on Solaris & OpenSolaris,
though OpenSolaris also receives contributions from non-Sun employees - both
volunteers and those working at other companies interested in advancing
OpenSolaris (such as makers of hardware that want OpenSolaris support for it
- Intel, AMD, LSI, etc.).
OpenSolaris is the development branch of Solaris, which will become the next
Solaris release in the future. As is common with most software development
projects with multiple branches, some fixes & features are backported from
the development branch to the stable/production branch (currently Solaris 10).
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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