Hi Stefan,
now that OpenSolaris as a distribution is dead, it might be getting time to move on. Question: which one of the distributions based on the Solaris kernel comes closest to Indiana, i.e. contains as much as legally possible from the 'official' Solaris world while still being open source? I mean, ZFS, zones, Xvm/Xen, IPS, self healing, automated installation, you name it.
That's Solaris 11. As John Fowler said, it will become available later this year as a preview release. Assuming that you're currently using OpenSolaris 2009.06 or a later build, you're enjoying a preview of Solaris 11 already. Nobody from Oracle said Solaris 11 won't be open source, so that should satisfy all of your requirements above.
What I definitely do not want is the Solaris kernel under the hood of a Linux distribution. *yuck*
No need for that. Just give Oracle some more time to explain themselves. And watching Oracle's communications around Oracle Open World is always a good idea. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz, Sales Consultant, Oracle Hardware Presales Germany Phone: +49 89 460 08 25 91 | Mobile: +49 172 834 90 30 Blog: http://constantin.glez.de/ | Twitter: zalez ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
