Redhat publishes a repository of all the public open source packages, and all the scripts necessary to build them, which make up RHEL. A commercial product. In RHEL, there are a small number of proprietary packages, and copyrighted materials. Centos downloads the whole repository of sources, and substitutes free alternatives of the proprietary packages, and releases Centos according to the RHEL release. Centos is a 100% free, 99% binary equivalent alternative to RHEL.
Is the same thing not possible with solaris/opensolaris? I know solaris source code is partially, if not entirely proprietary. So maybe solaris is out of the question. But opensolaris is entirely open, with public repositories, right? Is there anything preventing a community project from building opensolaris just like oracle would/should/does?
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