Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and part2
I take it that the once-promised/planned kernel source release for Solaris 11 is officially canceled... Frankly, this whole situation reminds me a bit of the situation with Borland's InterBase DBMS. First, it was released as open source and then new owners got cold feet and took it closed again. Since that point, the fork of the last open release (now known as Firebird) has continued strong, while the closed version has essentially sunk without a trace. Unless Oracle wises up, I forsee a similar outcome in Solaris-land. Mike ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /usr/share/man/man7/mel.7
It's not really in the proper format for a man page... I wouldn't be opposed to a "folklore" package that includes a collection of early USENET humor and the like though. Mike ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?
Frankly, I don't see why anybody would even be tempted to look at the new code. Most of the people who actually worked on the features that made Solaris unique have moved to companies within the OI/Illumos ecosystem. Various reports by news sites seem to indicate that there's not much exciting in the leaked code anyway. Mike ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?
My personal theory is the whole matter is being kept as quiet as possible by Oracle so that Larry can maintain the element of surprise when he attack the leaker's home with his MiG. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 source code leaked?
I'm assuming that a disgruntled employee made this dump out of frustration with the current situation. Still, given that the CDDL licenses on most files are almost certainly simply leftovers from the Sun era, the code is useless to OpenIndiana and not legally binding. I'd even go as far as to say that this is a BAD thing as there's now tempting code out there that if it accidentally made its way into OI or FreeBSD or any of the other projects using code from the OpenSolaris era could cause MAJOR legal problems for those projects. Mike ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?
Has the code for Solaris 11 been released as was once the plan? If so, I suppose that features can always get moved over into OI (and from there into FreeBSD, etc). If Solaris is now closed-source for good, then all bets are off, though. Mike ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?
Wow. They killed a lot of stuff. Not only 32-bit x86 support but tons of other stuff too. SPARC Workstation support has been killed off (no more UltraSparc I/II/III/IV support, no more Xsun and no more hardware accelerated OpenGL for SPARC) and a lot of legacy peripheral support for both x86 and SPARC is gone. Hopefully, OI won't be following along this path. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle gives openoffuce to apache
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Tom Kranz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 3 Jun 2011, at 03:44, Mark Humphreys wrote: > >> TDP does make the source code available. It should just be a matter of >> determining dependencies, if any, and compiling. > > Yes, it *should* be. Having tried to build this stuff on IRIX - stupid > amounts of work. TDP have not been working with portability in mind. Given that it works on FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS X and even Windows, itceratinly seems pretty portable to me. The problems with IRIX may come more from the fact that the IRIX devtools and build environment are horribly out of date since the product has been abandoned by its owners... Mike ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Userland questions?
What's the plan for the OpenIndiana userland? Is there any plan to integrate the Heirloom Tools or is the plan to keep up with "GNU-ification" that had been happening prior to Oracle closing things up? Also, is OpenIndiana planning on sticking with GNOME or are they going to be looking at moving to something a bit lighter? Mike ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
