[gnu-sol-discuss] Re: gnu-sol-discuss Digest, Vol 14, Issue 1

[Michael Papet]

Alan:

I'm glad you find it great, but please note the issue
of license incompatibility is open.

Right now, I'd say it doesn't matter because no one is
watching.

GPL, Debian's principals, and Sun's complex version
"free" are incompatible.

Good luck.

Michael


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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:25:54 -0700
> From: Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com>
> Subject: [gnu-sol-discuss] Nexenta in regards to Gnu
> Solaris
> To: gnu-sol-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Message-ID: <200608041925.54564.Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com>
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> I recently installed Nexenta and to say that I'm
> impressed is an 
> understatement. This has got to be one of the most
> incredible developments to 
> surface for OpenSolaris, to date. There are more
> than 12,000 packages 
> available through the apt library, to install on
> OpenSolaris. KDE 3.5.2 was 
> merely a matter of "apt-get install kde". And all of
> this is running on build 
> 44 bits!
> 
> There was a time when I tossed the idea around of
> GNU user land with a Solaris 
> kernel, and many of the Solaris yore laughed at me
> (and many still do) 
> because of the instabilities of GNU tools, bugs that
> exist, etc...
> 
> But there is something to be said about GNU tools in
> the sense that the open 
> source communities have embraced them as being a
> standard base set of tools 
> and as such they are showing up in most all open
> source distributions.
> 
> Nexenta is the closest thing to being a distribution
> for OpenSolaris, and just 
> happens to have GNU tools in the Debian fashion.
> Aside from the minor 
> annoyances of not being a SysV complete system,
> there's quite a bit there. 
> Even the atheros driver for my wifi is there. I have
> all devices working, 
> AFAIK (NIC, wifi, audio all work).
> 
> What an incredible success story for OpenSolaris, in
> the first year!
> 
> -- 
> 
> Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
> Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
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