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Open Solaris Derivative Available
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."
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.
In case the Open Solaris site goes down or you just don't feel like clicking two links on the page
Torrents!
Enough said.
The improvement is that it's a LiveCD.
does it have cdrecord?
What is the *primary* reason anyone would use Open Solaris over Linux, *BSD, and Windows?
When I use Linux, it is because I am hosting/running existing software like Trac/Subversion/PostgreSQL/... which appear most heavily used/tested on Linux than any other platform.
When I use FreeBSD, it is because I am hosting/running/distributing my own software and I don't want to deal with LGPL requirements regarding binaries linked to LGPL C libs (yes, I consultant an IP attorney about differences between GPL and LGPL requirements and also consulted FSF.ORG).
When I use Windows, it is because I am running software that is not available on either FreeBSD or Linux. And also for distributing software on a platform that has the largest marketshare.
When I use Open Solaris, it is because ???
You might know the author from cdrecord. He has a rather low opinion of the ide-scsi/ide-cd component of the kernel in general and Linus in particular. Good to see him where he is happy.
And solaris has a kick-ass kernel, no doubt about that. Debian/SunOS is the ultimate Unix environment in my mind. One day it will become reality, or so I hope...
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
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
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.
Text only is a vast improvement to CDE ;)
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
between solaris and linux ?
One sucks, and the other doesn't.
Or it might be the other way around.
And Darwin.
Battle of *nix(es) is on!!
This time, it's all open (amazing!).
This time, everyone's a winner.
They are two different OS and run on different kernels for a start(note that linux is just a kernel anyway)
Linux has a broader compatibility with x86 hardware
Solaris has by default a better permissions system
Linux is under the GNU GPL and thus a little freer than OpenSolaris
Solaris has far better NFS support , not that you would notice unless your running with allot of clients
Solaris is certified POSIX complient and linux is just pretty much POSIX compliant (mainly due to the cost of being declared posix compliant , and the rate the linux kernel evolves)
Those are some of many many many differences.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
It seems just a cut-down version (text only) of Solaris, so where's the improvement?
/. crowd, this sort of makes Open Solaris real.
It's a milestone.
After months (years?) of "show us the code" from the
No need to smear the OSS community. That describes the non-OSS community perfectly also.
There are people who hack for the love of it, and there are people who write code because they have a vision of making the world a better place through better technology... you just don't hear about them too much. They don't feel the need to self-promote.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
" Yes, Linux is such a "mess" that Sun have been _forced_ to copy it !" Actually, it looks like the reverse is already starting to happen. And in the past the linux kernel guys were able to get info from solaris and solaris engineers. here Some comments are negative some are positive but Solaris is mentioned the most by far out of any of the commercial Unixes. I can't find the link right now but I remember someone saying that back in the day Sun was a lot more open with it's technology. Sun engineers would publish info about their hardware and software. Especially when someone was having some sort of trouble. Then they got a little more closed down. Probably when they were making a ton of money. Sounds like Scott McNealy recognizes that and wants Sun to go back to being more open.
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He does cdrecord, not xcdroast. And he does use open standards, that's why it works on several unix OSs. Just because linux developers make some random change does not mean its magically an "open standard", its non-standard, linux-specific behaviour. Linux making random stupid changes and not informing people who use the now altered API is entirely the fault of linux developers. If you don't like it, use an OS that doesn't do this, or complain to the linux developers who created the problem.
IT was ment to be a-lot , shouldn't leave spell checker on auto correct
If you meant ment to mean meant, you should leave the spell checker on auto-correct or allot a lot more time to your dictionary.
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