Re: What will "OpenSolaris" be?

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

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:56:09 -0500

"Rich Teer" <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.SOL.4.58.0501291824470.855@zaphod...
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Dan Koren wrote:
>
> > 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 ;-)
>
> ZFS is part of the kernel; what makes you think Sun won't
> open source it?

File systems are modular. Sun could very well open source
the kernel and some, but not all, of the file systems. If
I'm not mistaken, this is exactly what SGI did: they open
sourced XFS, but not CXFS.

> Sooner or later the nay-sayers are gonna have to admit it:

Don't count me among the nay-sayers. I was only asking.

> Sun is serious about open sourcing Solaris. It is going to
> happen, soon.

Of course. Not only Solaris, but also AIX and HP-UX.
VMS and MPE too ;-)

dk

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