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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!
does it have cdrecord?
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.
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
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...
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
Too bad they fucked up the Sun Contributor Agreement
If I contribute to Linux, I don't have to assign the copyright to Linus.
Why don't you learn how to use `sed` properly before trying to be funny:
The AC sed it wasn't funny? Seriously, the people I know who can use sed correctly don't have a sense of humor. They also tend to use emacs instead of the superior vi. :)
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
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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