2010/8/13 "C. Bergström" <codest...@osunix.org>: > 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? >
Currently.. i18n library. > 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) For now, the compiler is SS. > c. Your definition is narrow and has missed some closed binaries > All of them will be opened. Soon. > > 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? > The project is a couple weeks old. There's already a webrevs for 145 and 146 merges, and another one for ksh93 port. There's been some other active discussions on develo...@lists.illumos.org. If not already, you should definitely subscribe to the lists. ~Anil http://www.illumos.org/projects/site/wiki/Mailing_Lists http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/08/hand-may-be-forced.html _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
