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Open Solaris Derivative Available

Posted by Zonk on from the zonkx-is-coming-next dept.

tezbobobo writes "Well, Open Solaris has only been available a matter of days and already there are new projects available. SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and distribution that is intended to help people discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard drive, it also allows developers to develop and compile code in a pure OpenSolaris environment. More details are available on the author's blog."

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  1. Good news! by f0d0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps Jörg will leave xcdroast to more Open Standards minded people now that he's got something new on his hands?

  2. Oh great, let the fun begin by teslatug · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let's start fragmenting Solaris into a bajillion distros that serves people's whim. Let's get it to the point where you don't know if you can ship binaries because you don't know what's supported. Let's get it to the point where you have to hunt down your favorite programs and their dependencies, and compile everything by hand. Let's take it a step further and shuffle all the program locations and make a distro out of that. Let's change the packaging system because the current one sucks, and let's replace it with an incompatible, but better! one. Diversity is good right? You get your OS just the way you like it, and damn the compatibility. Sure it's no where near the Linux mess, but man would I hate for Solaris to become another Linux.