On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, I. Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Henrik Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: >> What are you going to do with the fork? Solaris is dependent on the briliant >> engineers from what was Sun, no external coders have stepped upp and >> supplied many new features, mainly fixes only. > > I see this as slap into the face of those who contributed code. > > Contributing to Opensolaris is relatively easy except for ON which has > very strict quality rules. Nevertheless even ON has external > contributors working on active projects, for example: > - the ksh93-integration project which added /usr/bin/ksh93 and a > complex infrastructure. Thanks to this project ksh93 is now the > default system shell, i.e. /usr/bin/sh now links to ksh93. This > project is still running and continues to provide innovations and > maintenance. This was the first truly externally proposed and > externally driven community project at Opensolaris (*BIG* credits go > to Roland Mainz for getting this started). > - the ksh93-integration project spawned a couple of new projects, all > within ON from the beginning, which includes a project to modernise > all POSIX commands in /usr/bin and add GNU and BSD features to them > (credits go to Roland Mainz and Olga Kryzhanovska). > - Boomer, the new audio API is based on OSS, went into ON recently > (credits go to Garrett D'Amore) > - NEC is working on an ARM port of Solaris and I expect that Oracle > will allow their work to be merged with the mainline if the code is > ready > - Sinenomine is working on a S390 port of Solaris and I expect that it > will become part of the mainline code, too (credits go to Neale > Ferguson).
Just to add a bit to that... Several device drivers were rewritten by external contributors. I actually ported the nge driver to brussels, as well as added color ls support to /bin/ls, as well as rewrote the Sparc disassembler so it was open (adding new features and speeding it up in the processess) I'm also in the process of rewriting ls to perform better, as well as adding LLDP support to the kernel. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
