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Sun Celebrates Successful One-Year Anniversary of OpenSolaris
Sun Microsystems, Inc.has announced
that in the one year since the OpenSolaris community went live, it has
experienced tremendous growth in the open source community and customer
adoption. "Since open sourcing the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS)
in June 2005, Sun has seen the OpenSolaris community grow to more than
14,000 members while Solaris 10 has exceeded 5 million registered license
shipments -- more than its competitors have shipped collectively in the
last 18 months, and more than all current Solaris OS versions
combined."
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Sun Celebrates Successful One-Year Anniversary of OpenSolaris Posted Jun 20, 2006 17:09 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] Like all press releases.. the numbers have to be taken with a grain of salt.Does a registered licence shipment count 8 times if I attempted to download an ISO 8 times but got broken isos? If I am doing weekly downloads to keep in sync.. does this mean I have 52 registered shipments?
Sun Celebrates Successful One-Year Anniversary of OpenSolaris Posted Jun 20, 2006 21:06 UTC (Tue) by hisdad (subscriber, #5375) [Link] Hmm, I didn't realise they were shipping.I'm starting the download myself, just for curiosity. It's not going to displace my beautiful gentoo, but should be interesting. --dad
Sun Celebrates Successful One-Year Anniversary of OpenSolaris Posted Jun 20, 2006 21:38 UTC (Tue) by captrb (subscriber, #2291) [Link] You should give Nextenta/GNUSolaris a try: http://www.gnusolaris.org
Sun Celebrates Successful One-Year Anniversary of OpenSolaris Posted Jun 20, 2006 22:19 UTC (Tue) by hisdad (subscriber, #5375) [Link] That looks interesting.Much of what I want to learn though, is is how the system is put together. That would be useful if I had to sit down at a 'real' solaris box.. --dad
Sun Celebrates Successful One-Year Anniversary of OpenSolaris Posted Jun 21, 2006 0:39 UTC (Wed) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] Of course, you should be aware of the following:
1) The press release should have said "Since open sourceing *part* of the Solaris(TM) Operating System in June 2005...", since there were, and still are, large chunks of the OS which are not re-licensed as Open Source. Some components of OpenSolaris are not released as Open Source at all, and are instead licensed under the "OpenSolaris Binary License", which, to my reading, is not an Open Source license at all. (see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/opensolaris_binar...)
From fsf.org (in http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html):
'Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. It requires that all attribution notices be maintained, while the GPL only requires certain types of notices. Also, it terminates in retaliation for certain aggressive uses of patents. So, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason.
Also unfortunate in the CDDL is its use of the term "intellectual property".'
IANAL, but that doesn't look so hot.
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