On 22 September 2010 12:06, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > On 09/22/10 07:57 PM, Knut Reinert wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Blake >> <davidblakeaus...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork? >>> >> >> Given the ongoing BSD'tification of Illumos userland utilities I'd say >> it may be time to fork. > > So what to you propose as an alternative to the closed source bits of > OpenSolaris?
Well, I see what's already there: Some of the closed utils are already there but not enabled in the ON tree: /usr/bin/printf: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2008/094/20080208_roland.mainz /usr/bin/sed, /usr/xpg4/bin/sed: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/086/20100310_olga.kryzhanovska /usr/bin/tail, /usr/xpg4/bin/tail: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/249/20090420_roland.mainz.2 /usr/bin/od, /usr/xpg4/bin/od, /usr/bin/tr, /usr/xpg4/bin/tr, /usr/xpg6/bin/tr: svn://svn.genunix.org/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/prototype040/usr/src/lib/libcmd/common/ has versions of them, although tr has ben said as "need work for POSIX.2008" but good enough to compile ON. What I never understood is that Illumos choose to ignore this and did all the effort of porting the FreeBSD code to the Illumos gate. Either way one side wasted lots of time. Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> Institute Pasteur _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
