[ogb-discuss] What is OpenSolaris?

[Mike Gerdts]

On 7/31/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> What if they don't support running on Nevada at all, but only on
> Solaris 10 or older releases?   Should a project seeking support
> from OpenSolaris.org be required to run on at least one OpenSolaris
> distro?   (be it Solaris Express, Nexenta, Belenix, Indiana or
> another one?)

"Supported on" is a slippery phrase in open source.  If it is
obsoleted by features found post-Solaris 10, then "they don't support
running on Nevada at all" makes sense.  Otherwise, if it is something
that is likely to have any sort of community behind it, I bet that it
starts to run on OpenSolaris.  If there is an active community and it
"runs on" a particular OS, many would call that "supported on" that
OS.

To me, OpenSolaris is not just about the code & binaries that run on
post-solaris 10 product.  For instance, I now have a command called
"first" that runs on Solaris 8 (and later) that looks a lot like last.
 It does the one thing that I've never seen last do: tell me who was
logged in when a particular file was modified.  I've just tried to
engage the testing community on how to get started with the
OpenSolaris test framework so that I can test my own images and custom
code.  These are all targeted at Solaris 10 or earlier.

In other words, I would personally welcome code that helps the Solaris
ecosystem.

Mike
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