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OpenSolaris One Year On
daria42 writes "In June of last year, Sun Microsystems open sourced its flagship operating system Solaris. This article asks the question, where is the OpenSolaris project after one year of operation? It contains views from Sun itself as well as insights from an external contributor to the code." From the article: "Sun is yet to release some aspects of Solaris as open source software, although that process is due for completion by the year's end. Meanwhile, non-Sun programmers have to date offered some 165 code contributions to the OpenSolaris project, said Eagleton. Of those, 70 have been accepted into the project's code base, while another 95 are still in the review process. To allay early community concerns that the process of getting external code contributions accepted was taking too long, Sun has a temporary buddy system whereby external contributors are partnered with Sun employees."
Well, not making their stuff intentionally GPL-incompatible would REALLY help a lot.
From what I hear around, most developers just look at Sun's licenses and decide they don't want to touch them with a 10-foot pole. And this is really a sad thing: things like Nexenta are nearly dead while a tiny move could turn them into all-out sharing of code between Linux and Solaris. But no, Sun's can't swallow its pride and make small concessions while entering a field where it's not them who are the current leaders.
Having Solaris as a yet another Debian arch would be just awesome. And there are people interested in doing the work.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
In the mean time, Sun still refuses to give required documentation so OpenBSD can support the so-called "Open" platform from Sun. As Theo explained, some details have impact on a lot of system subroutines everywhere, and checking Linux source code is not enough (would be easy but BSD is not Linux and there are fundamental differences in how the VM works and so on).
Even a journalist asked very clear and precise questions about the so-called "Open" platform from Sun and he never got any answer (and won't ever, probably).
Nothing to see here, move along.