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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?
From:       Erik Trimble <erik.trimble () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-08-30 2:51:07
Message-ID: 4C7B1C9B.60101 () oracle ! com
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  On 8/29/2010 3:11 PM, Edward Martinez wrote:
> There is something to this effect in progress - stay
>> tuned for an announcement.
>>
>> GSoC is a great idea to pursue next year.
>>
>> -Albert
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> all goodie... I thought my opensolaris books became door stoppers ;)
>
> it may attract some customers that are upset at oracle for allegedly discontinuing opensolaris.

Open development of code by non-Oracle folks is effectively completely 
dead for OpenSolaris.  IllumOS is a *fork* of OpenSolaris - they'll try 
(very hard) to maintain ABI compatibility, but they're now off on their 
own direction.  Code drops from Oracle Solaris (if they really are going 
to be made available, which is unknown at this time) will NOT 
automatically be integrated into IllumOS.  To paraphrase a IllumOS 
dude:  "we'll treat code drops from Oracle (if they ever occur) just 
like we would work from some super-secretive Ted Kaczynski-like 
idiot-savant hermit coder - they need to be carefully screened, and 
slowly added to the codebase only if it seems reasonable, not as if it 
were some missive from God."

Frankly, for GSoC work,  Solaris/Solaris Express are no longer Open 
Source projects, for any real [practical, functional] definition of Open 
Source.


That said, there are existing OpenSolaris-based distros already, and 
there are expected to be announcements for several IllumOS-based 
projects which effectively mimic the "feel" of OpenSolaris.

-Erik

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