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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)Posted Sep 27, 2008 6:07 UTC (Sat) by jasonjgw (guest, #52080)Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)
One of the problems with OpenSolaris is that, apparently, a working system
cannot be built without non-free Sun development tools. I haven't seen any evidence of a sustained effort to fix this. "Free, but shackled" is Richard Stallman's apt term for this kind of problem.
On the positive side, I'm sure we'll see more healthy competition between
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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 27, 2008 13:42 UTC (Sat) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
I think various people are working on improving that kind of problem. For example, David Bartley recently announced a version of Debian running on Solaris using the GNU libc instead of the Sun libc:
http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/gnusol-devel/2008-Septem...
That is exciting to me because it eliminates a licensing issue that prevents Solaris from becoming an official Debian kernel.
Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) Posted Sep 27, 2008 15:47 UTC (Sat) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
A Nexenta user pointed me to the Solaris Emancipation Project:
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