Talking to Stephan Hahn and David Comay of OpenSolaris
I recently caught up with two of the big brains behind OpenSolaris, Stephen Hahn and David Comay to discuss the launch of OpenSolaris 2008.5 and a lot of the work and thinking that has gone into it.
My interview with Stephen and David (14:07) Listen (Mp3) Listen (ogg)
Stephen and David toast the launch with their expensive crystal glasses at the OpenSolaris install fest at CommunityOne.
Some of the topics we tackle:
- How to balance attracting new developers with making sure we keep the customers and developers who've traditionally been using Solaris.
- Where we've borrowed from and what we've borrowed.
- Stephen drills down on the Image Packaging System (IPS) and explains why we decided to roll our own.
- How IPS compares to apt-get.
- The easy conversion of system V packages to IPS.
- Where OpenSolaris is heading over the next year
