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Open Solaris Community Advisory Board Announced

Posted by timothy on from the should-pass-a-law-or-at-least-form-a-committee dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun have announced the OpenSolaris community advisory board, chaired by Roy Felding (co founder and director of the Apache Foundatation), two community appointed people, Rich Teer and Al Hooper (both members of the infamous gang of six that helped to get Sun to restart Solaris x86) and two sun employees - well known open source evangelist Simon Phipps and kernel engineer Casper Dik. No date for the code release as of yet, but it can't be far off now."

2 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. Re:wtf happened to solaris for PPC by turgid · · Score: 3, Informative
    So now where is solaris for PPC.

    These guys seem to want to make it their business to do a port.

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    Stick Men
  2. Re:Hopefully OpenSolaris can soon answer by WebMink · · Score: 2, Informative

    OpenSolaris will be a full, buildable system with as few components as possible (mainly drivers) available only as binary when it launches this quarter. The pilot program is already testing and building the code (Ben Rockwood, for example) and has started thinking laterally about new potential distributions like PPC.