On 8/29/2010 3:11 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
There is something to this effect in progress - stay
tuned for an announcement.
GSoC is a great idea to pursue next year.
-Albert
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all goodie... I thought my opensolaris books became door stoppers ;)
it may attract some customers that are upset at oracle for allegedly
discontinuing opensolaris.
Open development of code by non-Oracle folks is effectively completely
dead for OpenSolaris. IllumOS is a *fork* of OpenSolaris - they'll try
(very hard) to maintain ABI compatibility, but they're now off on their
own direction. Code drops from Oracle Solaris (if they really are going
to be made available, which is unknown at this time) will NOT
automatically be integrated into IllumOS. To paraphrase a IllumOS
dude: "we'll treat code drops from Oracle (if they ever occur) just
like we would work from some super-secretive Ted Kaczynski-like
idiot-savant hermit coder - they need to be carefully screened, and
slowly added to the codebase only if it seems reasonable, not as if it
were some missive from God."
Frankly, for GSoC work, Solaris/Solaris Express are no longer Open
Source projects, for any real [practical, functional] definition of Open
Source.
That said, there are existing OpenSolaris-based distros already, and
there are expected to be announcements for several IllumOS-based
projects which effectively mimic the "feel" of OpenSolaris.
-Erik
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