Monday May 23, 2005
How to Write Compelling Blog Posts ..... missing a crucial one
I saw this article "How to Write Compelling Blog Posts" during the weekend ... and I guess the only thing he missed is .... write an interesting post ... there are sooo many we can be without ... but of course, it's your discretion to decide which ones you like/read
( May 23 2005, 03:11:21 PM GMT+00:00 ) Permalink
distributions based on OpenSolaris
So ... here we are, we have all seen/used Solaris 10 for some time now or if you haven't then you may at least read some of the good pressarticles and reviews. OpenSolaris is also getting closer and closer to release the source code and if you've already finished looking through DTrace there will soon be plenty more to look at. But - What will you get ?
As we see it, the binary distribution of OpenSolaris is Solaris Express. You might say that that is not truly open source software (since Sun compiled it ?). OK, so you can obviously compile it yourself and as this is a new beginning for Solaris this will give you a kernel with some core functionality, it will not yet be the complete Solaris distribution but rather the ON (OS and Networking) consolidation a.k.a. kernel ... We are addressing this and the roadmap tells us it will require some more work before we have a complete distribution. Today OpenSolaris is more like kernel.org than Fedora from Redhat. Something my colluege Eric Boutilier has had some thoughts about too .... By the way, when choosing this path, there are plenty of help out there like blastwave, sunfreeware, solarpack etc to be used ....
Another thing, (which I tend to explain to people I have meet when discussing OpenSolaris) we can't open source the code more than once ..... e.g. Xorg, GNOME et. al. are already open source'd .... ok it doesn't stop us from including it but it's just a question of prioritizing the workload
Anyways, the other option is to go for a complete (non Sun) distribution based on OpenSolaris ... and there are already a few initiatives, like SchilliX. You may even want to use it on a PowerPC platform ... then look or help Cyril and the gang with Polaris ?
Maybe you are into optimize/customize and compile it for your specific system (like the gentoo bunch) then look no further, here is the announcement for gentoo/OpenSolaris support ... this will of course use Portaris.
So there will be options (and these are only the first ones) ... if you aren't happy running Solaris Express or Solaris 10
tag : opensolaris
( May 23 2005, 12:34:39 PM GMT+00:00 ) Permalink Comments [2]
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