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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."

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  1. solaris 10 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I got fed up with Red Hat licensing... and made my way over to a free Solaris 10 binary. Gotta love it... now that they've got an insurance policy with OpenSolaris, I'm on my way back. Blow the politics, I want performance (and dTrace with Zones!!).

    1. Re:solaris 10 by SunFan · · Score: 4, Interesting


      Solaris 10 is really a huge leap. DTrace is useful right out of the box, no configuration needed, and there are lots of sample scripts in /usr/demo and appearing on websites. In practically no time at all (some reading of the manual, plus literally minutes of programming) I had a hacked-together script (based on a demo script) and was able to get a measure of the syscalls consuming the most total time in a program (not just counts of syscalls but the count _times_ the average time spent in each call). If a person gets enough knowledge to examine lots of kernel data directly in real-time, the potential of DTrace is mind-blowing (the *stat tools aren't even close).

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  2. Hopefully OpenSolaris can soon answer by HighOrbit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How soon before Sun identifies all the components of Solaris that will be "open source" versus the components that will remain proprietary because of third-party ownership? Right now I only see DTrace as "open" on their web-site. They also say "Expect to see buildable Solaris code here in Q2 2005." Does "buildable Solaris code" just mean a few tools or does it mean a complete working system with kernel and userland?

    No doubt, if they can get a basic (but otherwise bootable and working) open source Solaris out there, they community will be able to soon (say within a few years) replace the proprietary components.

    A few weeks ago I bought myself a sparc box (netra T1 AC200), and after some initial problems with install media, finally got solaris installed. So far I am favorably impressed.