You are mixing things...
There is Solaris (10, currently), which in that past was "forked", and that
new fork was the basis, of what became OpenSolaris (the OpenSource side).
>From that development fork, some FEATURES are BACKPORTED into Solaris 10.
>From that development fork, also BINARY DISTRIBUTIONS (like OpenSolaris) are
>build (which can have additional things).
>From that development fork, also a FORK will be done, which will then be the
>basis of the next Solaris.
So, yes, all major dev. is taking place on OpenSolaris.
Yes, there are difference (need be, as you need to have a stable platform, for
example for Solaris 10)!
So, what's the fuss, all this is nothing new, all this has been descibed years
ago in many slides...
You need to understand, that Solaris 10, OpenSolaris (community) and
OpenSolaris (binary distribution) have ALWAYS BEEN DIFFERENT THINGS!
Matthias
You (bsd) wrote:
> If the quote you printed is accurate "...some features of its Oracle Solaris
> will not appear in OpenSolaris..." is right, then don't you have it wrong
> when you say that was Sun's position?
>
> I thought OpenSolaris was the development branch of Solaris, and new
> technologies, such as Crossbow, may not make it into the Solaris releases.
>
> My take on the quote is Oracle is developing Solaris independently of
> OpenSolaris and they don't plan to introduce some of those features into
> OpenSolaris.
>
> Why would Oracle have a development team for Solaris independent of
> OpenSolaris, when OpenSolaris is supposed to be the development branch for
> new technologies that will be adopted into Solaris?
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