Tuesday January 25, 2005

On opening up Solaris (redux)

Well, we're finally starting our first public steps in the OpenSolaris project, with the release of the DTrace code today (along with more information about the overall project). Note that while we hope people will be interested in the code, we don't expect a community to form around a source drop. Think of this as our good faith deposit to show that we're serious, that we're not holding the "good stuff" back, that we're sincere in our plan to release the Solaris source code and build a community around it. There's information about the license as well. We'll be following up with more shortly. And if you are interested in details about the DTrace code, check out Bryan's blog.