Anil Gulecha <[email protected]> writes: > Illumos will be the upstream. Illumos project started out as a branch > of OpenSolaris code, but is now effectively a fork of OpenSolaris > codebase.
I don't understand the distinction being made there. What is different between “a branch of the code” versus “a fork of the codebase”? > As an added positive, it is replacing all of the closed bits > (previously distributed as binary blobs) with open code. A major > portion of this is already done. Great news, I'm glad people are enthusiastic enough to make a free software version of this code. -- \ “We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, | `\ disgraces anyone who would claim it.” —Sam Harris, _The End of | _o__) Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
