On 8/13/10 9:02 PM, "C. Bergström" wrote: > 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?
Illumos is 2 weeks old. Lets cut it a little slack. :) benr. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
