Erast wrote:
On 08/13/2010 01:39 PM, Tim Cook wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/13/opensolaris_is_dead/
I'm a bit surprised at this development... Oracle really just doesn't
get it. The part that's most disturbing to me is the fact they won't be
releasing nightly snapshots. It appears they've stopped Illumos in its
tracks before it really even got started (perhaps that explains the
timing of this press release)
Wrong. Be patient, with the pace of current Illumos development it
soon will have all the closed binaries liberated and ready to sync up
with promised ON code drops as dictated by GPL and CDDL licenses.
Illumos is just a source tree at this point. You're delusional,
misinformed, or have some big wonderful secret if you believe you have
all the bases covered for a pure open source distribution though..
What's closed binaries liberated really mean to you?
Does it mean
a. You copy over the binary libCrun and continue to use some version
of Sun Studio to build onnv-gate
b. You debug the problems with and start to use ancient gcc-3 (at
the probably expense of performance regressions which most people would
find unacceptable)
c. Your definition is narrow and has missed some closed binaries
I think it's great people are still hopeful, working hard and going to
steward this forward, but I wonder.. What pace are you referring to?
The last commit to illumos-gate was 6 days ago and you're already not
even keeping it in sync.. Can you even build it yet and if so where's
the binaries?
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