Re: What will "OpenSolaris" be?

From: Dan Koren (dankoren_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:53:04 -0500

"Edward Lloyd Hillman" <edwardh@highstream.net> wrote in message
news:10vodrajghtidff@news.supernews.com...
> In article <35vha9F4ohqi8U1@individual.net>,
> "Will Hartung" <willh@msoft.com> writes:
> > I know, NDA and all, but it's worth a shot.
> >
> > Some of the OpenSolaris insiders have been talking about how they can
now
> > "build OpenSolaris", because they've got the source code now.
> >
> > When they say "OpenSolaris", are they just talking the kernel? Or more
than
> > that.
> >
> [rest snipped]
>
> I'm certainly not an insider, but I would say that it's going to be
> more than ths kernel as the source code for DTrace is available at the
> OpenSolaris.org website <http://www.opensolaris.org/> .
>

However, DTrace is probably closer to the kernel than any
other command or utility. It would be interesting to find
out if Sun will open source its compilers and ZFS ;-)

dk