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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. Re:Oh great, let the fun begin by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Honestly i think your Jumping the gun a little. This wont happen to solaris , solaris will always be solaris and compatible with itself . If this distros goes so far as to be incompatible with Solaris main then it will cease to be a solaris.
    Solaris is an OS as opposed to linux which is just a kernel

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  2. Re:BSD, Linux and now Solaris-derivatives.. by node+3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And Darwin.

    Battle of *nix(es) is on!!

    This time, it's all open (amazing!).

    This time, everyone's a winner.

  3. Re:When I choose ___ OS, it is because... by pedantic+bore · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why run OpenSolaris:

    Tools like DTrace. The ability to scale to large numbers of processors. A security model that is quite strong. A stable code base. A reasonable license. Decent management tools; a server mindset.

    There's nothing all that revolutionary about it; it doesn't so much as fill a hole as provide another choice. Personally I see it as something to use when I would have used *BSD but I don't want to deal with the politics...

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  4. Re:When I choose ___ OS, it is because... by njcoder · · Score: 4, Insightful
    If you read that quote directly, the licensor has to specifically state "any later version" in the license. "If each program lacked the indirect pointer, we would be forced to discuss the change at length with numerous copyright holders, which would be a virtual impossibility. In practice, the chance of having uniform distribution terms for GNU software would be nil."

    So if the file doesn't say "Version 2 of the GPL or any later version" then that clause does not apply.

    If you look at the linux kernel readme it says "It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the 19 accompanying COPYING file for more details. "

    Also note that in the COPYING file it specifically states

    "Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated."
    And there were only a couple files I found that explicityly stated it.

    Next time, know what you're talking to before you call bullshit. This is from the 2.6.11 kernel. I didn't look at 2.6.12

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