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Next year critical for Sun's 'Project Copy Linux'
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| Not helping its case is the fact Sun put OpenSolaris under its own license -
| Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Sun joins a league of
| other vendors including Microsoft who have written their own licenses rather
| than use existing open-source licenses. Debian, by contrast, got to its
| position in the industry using a spread of different, and existing, licenses.
| Another complication is the Sun-domination of the OpenSolaris work.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/ian_murdock_open_solaris/
Yesterday:
OpenSolaris still has some Linux copying to do
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| OpenSolaris 2008.05 packs in most of what Linux users are likely to expect -
| GNOME, easy installation, good software update tools and more - and then adds
| some extras on top. Although OpenSolaris isn't quite ready for prime time,
| when it is, it'll be a nice possible alternative to Linux.
|
| Because it ships with a number of developer-focused tools that most desktop
| users probably don't care about - the ZFS filesystem, DTrace,
| and "containers" - it may not be all that compelling for average users.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/open_solaris_review/
Recent:
Does OpenSolaris Matter?
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| I'm not sure.
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| Sun first announced OpenSolaris in 2005 but they keep finding ways to
| announce 'first releases'. Yesterday was one such release.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/05/does-opensolaris-matter.html
Sun Promises Regular Open Source Solaris Updates
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| "We see it as one platform, two releases," he said during a press roundtable
| at the JavaOne conference. Solaris is the stable platform with long-term
| support for long-term mission-critical application deployment, while the open
| source version is the fast-evolving, innovative operating system that reaches
| out to developers and computer science students who want to learn about the
| technology.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145739/sun_promises_regular_open_source_solaris_updates.html
What’s wrong at OpenSolaris
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| Notice that? No SPARC support: on an OS product backed by Sun.
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| And beyond that, what does the curious but uncommitted user see here? an
| illogical “extra” in the first paragraph and a sloppy mistake in the second -
| the package repository isn’t on the OpenOffice site, they’re trying to cite
| an example of what’s available.
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| Why did this happen? I think it happened for the same reason that companies
| like Red Hat, IBM, and Microsoft have been having a wonderful time spreading
| FUD about the CDDL and the inevitability of some future switch to GPL3: Ian
| Murdock.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1144
First look: OpenSolaris 2008.05 a work in progress
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| Although the OpenSolaris development community still has a lot of work to do
| before the operating system is ready to take on Linux on the desktop, the
| progress so far indicates that the project deserves further attention. We
| will keep an eye on future releases to see how the platform evolves.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080512-first-look-opensolaris-2008-05-a-work-in-progress.html
Crystal Ball Sunday #2: OpenSolaris vs. Linux
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| My first prediction is that there will be sizable battle waged between the
| two in the Press and in IT labs alike. I foresee a lot of debate going back
| and forth about the two operating systems, their pros, their cons, and the
| stalwarts in both camps. This is going to be somewhat of a religious battle
| so prepare yourselves accordingly.
|
| Second, and perhaps more important, is the license that both operating
| systems will eventually live under. Linus Torvalds opposes GPL3 and currently
| refuses to allow the kernel to be governed by it. OpenSolaris was released
| under the CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License).
| I think the first one of these operating systems that is releases under GPL3
| will probably gain widespread acceptance with developers, corporations, and
| adopters. The reason is that most of the other open source apps released
| under GPL3 will receive vigorous adoption and development by the kernel that
| also matches that license.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2435.html
OpenSolaris gets its wings ... but it requires a long, long time on the tarmac
with 512 MB of RAM
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| At any rate, what I learned is that OpenSolaris is certainly usable on the
| desktop, just not so much in the form that Sun itself is releasing it --
| especially for a box with 512 MB of RAM.
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http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2008/05/opensolaris-2.html
Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
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| InfoWorld: What exactly is Debian?
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| Murdock: Debian is a Linux distribution. It's the basis of Ubuntu Linux. I
| suppose the basic innovation of Debian was that it was developed by a
| distributed community, so we intentionally set out to build it in a
| distributed fashion, and it's one of the first open-source projects to
| operate that way.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/09/Sun-exec-ponders-OpenSolaris-Linux_1.html
OpenSolaris Wants To Compete With Linux - Oh Yeah?
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| Yesterday Sun Microsystems officially released OpenSolaris and suggested that
| it's going to go head-to-head with Linux as a Desktop Operating System.
| Solarisx86 is nothing new and has been around about as long as Linux but it
| is historically proprietary and closed source. It was also very
| hardware-finicky and performance was slothlike.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2415.html
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