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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?
From:       Stefan_Müller-Wilken <stefan.mueller-wilken () acando ! de>
Date:       2010-08-30 15:21:34
Message-ID: 3D7EAD1E-FEB2-48E7-8F73-E6CE86D8585E () acando ! de
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Hi Constantin,

is there any channel you don't monitor these days? When do you actually sleep? :-)

> > now that OpenSolaris as a distribution is dead, it might be getting time to
> > move on. Question: which one of the distributions based on the Solaris
> > kernel comes closest to Indiana, i.e. contains as much as legally possible
> > from the 'official' Solaris world while still being open source? I mean,
> > ZFS, zones, Xvm/Xen, IPS, self healing, automated installation, you name
> > it.
> 
> That's Solaris 11. As John Fowler said, it will become available later this
> year as a preview release.

Well, at least with Xvm/Xen, that could be difficult facing the fact that Oracle has \
dropped that in favor of OVM, no? And xVM might be only programmatic for what most \
people fear: decisions that are purely led by economical aspects and not by \
technological concerns. What comes next? Restrict the number of cores or amount of \
addressable memory on the community edition?

[...]

> Nobody from Oracle said Solaris 11 won't be open source, so that should
> satisfy all of your requirements above.

Well, you have to admit that Oracle's licensing scheme in other parts of the empire \
tends to be somewhat restrictive wrt. to under what circumstances you're eligible to \
use the software. That's what I like about OSOL - no risk whatsoever to run into \
underlicensing situations etc.. Can you guarantee that for SX(I)CE?

> > What I definitely do not want is the Solaris kernel under the hood of a
> > Linux distribution. *yuck*
> 
> No need for that.
> 
> Just give Oracle some more time to explain themselves.


You're right in that it might be fair not to express doubts but to wait for the \
facts. But at least in this case, Oracle is not particularly good at increasing my \
patience ;-)

Cheers
 Stefan.

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