Apostolos Syropoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but star ( Jörg's version of tar) should concern > OpenIndiana and not Illumos, which is a kernel, right?
The Solaris ONNV development tree is far more than a Linux kernel. ONNV is a complete OS the same as e.g. FreeBSD is. ONNV is basically what you received as complete OS around 1990 if you did not install a windowing system. ONNV of course icnludes what the basic POSIX standard describes. As POSIX includes e.g. pax(1) and ad the pax implementation used by Sun is the closed source pax from the "OpenGroup", it cannot be distributed in source. We, the community need to replace closed source programs by open source in order to permit to port Solaris to other platforms. Sun did only deliver i386 and sparc binaries. A Solaris for PowerPC or MIPS needs full source.... My goals for creating the SchilliX distro is to be as close as possible to the Sun Solaris distro. If you like to use a OSS pax(1), the OSS implementation that is closest to the closed source pax(1) found on Sun Solaris is star. SchilliX already comes with star, but SchilliX is currently based on Illumos. The latter may change in case that Illumos goes it's own way and deviates too much from Sun Solaris. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
