On 30/10/2007, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > > > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: > >>> Although X and GNOME have strong connections into Sun, they are nothing > >>> specific to OpenSolaris. > >> So now that FreeBSD & MacOS X have ZFS & DTrace, they are not > >> specific to OpenSolaris, and thus not part of OpenSolaris? > > > > This is technology that has been developed for OpenSolaris. > > Okay, so then the portions of Xorg & GNOME that were developed for OpenSolaris > (Trusted Extensions support, DTrace probes, etc.) are part of OpenSolaris, > but the rest of them are not?
To which I would add, are all of the technologies that were originally developed for the original AT&T also not part of OpenSolaris? It's silly to pick arbitrary boundaries like that to define what is part of an OS. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
