Tuesday June 14, 2005
Finally ... now we are OPEN for business !!!
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It's been a looooong wait, because I started hearing
this being discussed quite a few years back ... we sat in a internal
meeting in Menlo
Park, SFO and XXXX talked
about plans for open sourcing Solaris. The problem
was that there were many opponents at that time .... and as with
everything ... there are always pros and cons ! Anyways now we are here
... hopefully you will start to use it, see the
benefits, feedback,
engage
and maybe even do some coding
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BUT ... during all the meetings,
talks
etc I have done through the years ... people or maybe more likely customers do
tend to not care to much about this matter  I mean
... they would love
to see the code, get
better understanding, investigate a problem/bug, improve an application
etc etc there are many reasons BUT one which is very seldom there, from
an end users p.o.v, is to
actually write something new or additional to Solaris ... I repeat,
most customers just want to read and understand the code, not add or
change it !!! An example is what Peter says in his blog
about what distro and reasons for being engaged in the OpenSolaris pilot programAnd a situation like this, as I happened to be in myself a few months back when my colleague Jon and I spoke about how smf(5) will change our lives (thank god!) .... he pointed out that smf(5) is actually affecting the share command - huh? Yes when you run share to export a filesystem you will automagically1 enable svc:/network/nfs/server plus some other supportive services ... The thinking is that if you want to share(1M) something you obviously want to ... share(1M) it ... so if the nfs server et. al. is not enabled it obviously has to be before the sharing is taking place, pretty logical isn't it. Agreeing that this can be a issue from a security p.o.v ... but then again we are humans ... so we should know what we are doing shouldn't we as a conclusion .... I guess the RFE to report/log will be for the capability of unshare and unshareall to disable the nfs server et. al. when the last shared filesystem is unshared But the question
is who will do that, you or me ?tag:opensolaris and solaris |
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