> But I would like to know if its easy, like in Linux and BSD*? It's definitely not the one button/command process that Linux has. It's very much a manual process with quite a few requirements and pre-requisites. Have a look at the link I posted on the 12th - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/. Follow Step 3a (left hand side) + the sections at the bottom, especially the "Now What?" part. That'll build you a new OS from source. You can use your build environment to [re]build any part of the OS you like. If you do make any changes to either fix a bug or provide enhancements check with the community to see if it will benefit the masses. If so you can request a sponsor and get your code implemented in to the source tree for release in a later build.
The reason Solaris doesn't have a simple mechanism for re-compiling is because users never needed to. Historically Solaris was, and still is, propriety/closed source so it's not possible for the general user base to get hold of the source code unless under special licence. The patches and hardware updates was the method chosen to provide users with bug fixes and new features. Now that we have OpenSolaris things may change but not any time soon. Happy compiling. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
