Kevin Bowling wrote:
> Sun releasing OpenSolaris when they finally did and under the CDDL was
> pretty tone deaf to what was going on in the market with Linux, but
> you have to admire the amount of contract review and legal work that
> must have taken.
How is OpenSolaris different from SunOS (Sun/Oracle Solaris) anyway?
Isn't the relationship kinda RHEL-CentOS'ish? I.e. one is community-
-supported, and another is commercially.
No. Not even close.
SunOS is BSD based (first 4.2 then 4.3 then with some small amount of System V code) with a written from scratch vm.
Solaris is sun's do-over based on System V Release 4. It's great leap backwards. It was a huge slap in the face of the old SunOS crew by inept management. The final indignity was SunOS 4.1 being rebranded Solaris 1.0, which was pure marketing...
Warner