> > But I would like to know if its easy, like in Linux > and BSD*? > > It's definitely not the one button/command process > that Linux has. It's very much a manual process with > quite a few requirements and pre-requisites. Have a > look at the link I posted on the 12th - > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/. Follow > Step 3a (left hand side) + the sections at the > bottom, especially the "Now What?" part. That'll > build you a new OS from source. You can use your > build environment to [re]build any part of the OS you > like. If you do make any changes to either fix a bug > or provide enhancements check with the community to > see if it will benefit the masses. If so you can > request a sponsor and get your code implemented in to > the source tree for release in a later build. > > The reason Solaris doesn't have a simple mechanism > for re-compiling is because users never needed to. > Historically Solaris was, and still is, > propriety/closed source so it's not possible for the > general user base to get hold of the source code > unless under special licence. The patches and > hardware updates was the method chosen to provide > users with bug fixes and new features. Now that we > have OpenSolaris things may change but not any time > soon.
Thanks. I will try this out. I hope the Solaris Express could be installed in another boot environement on my rpool. I have still one question: Is the OpenSolaris kernel full open source?! Or is it closed source? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
