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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. Been in dev for some time. by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thursday, March 24, 2005
    Pure OpenSolaris boots on x86
    Today, I have been able to boot from a disk that was empty before I did install a self compiled OpenSolaris on it.

    So we now reached a certain limit that makes it possible to start with creating a OpenSolaris based x86 distribution at BerliOS.

  2. What really disappoints me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...is that there were those of us in Sun who wanted to do this kind of thing 5 years ago, but the pointy-hairs just didn't get it. There was talk of a GNU/Solaris as well.

    The pointy-hairs did get it eventually, but they RIF'd us and let external people do it instead. Meanwhile millions of $s of R&D money was wasted on stupid projects that were not needed, ill-concieved, cancelled, etc.

  3. Re:When I choose ___ OS, it is because... by Curtman · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The OpenSolaris license is the CDDL. It is not a viral license like the GPL

    Too bad they fucked up the Sun Contributor Agreement

    2. You hereby assign to Sun joint ownership in all worldwide common law and statutory rights associated with the copyrights, copyright applications and copyright registrations in Your Contribution, to the extent allowable under applicable local laws and copyright conventions, and agree never to assert against Sun any "moral rights" therein. You understand that
    (i) this Agreement may be submitted by Sun to register a copyright in Your Contribution, and
    (ii) Sun may exercise all rights as a copyright owner of Your Contribution. This Agreement supersedes and replaces all prior copyright assignments for Contributions made by You to Sun. Neither party has any duty whatsoever to render an accounting to the other party for any use of a Contribution.

    If I contribute to Linux, I don't have to assign the copyright to Linus.