On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Anil Gulecha <a...@nexenta.org> writes: > >> Illumos will be the upstream. Illumos project started out as a branch >> of OpenSolaris code, but is now effectively a fork of OpenSolaris >> codebase. > > I don't understand the distinction being made there. What is different > between “a branch of the code” versus “a fork of the codebase”? >
The idea initally was not to explicitly be a fork (go on a different development path). lllumos was to follow OpenSolaris closely, except replacing closed binaries and maintaining drivers upstream may drop. I guess you can technically call this a fork.. but the idea was to be close. Now, Illumos has no real upstream, and is maintaining the last code drop, and will merge changes from future code drops. Regards, Anil http://www.gulecha.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktin4zialo42xm8i7rpx+yng-n7sxtonj=-w_9...@mail.gmail.com
