18 Jun
2005
18 Jun
'05
8:08 p.m.
Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/) has some VERY good discussion of the
'openness' of this code...
-----Original Message-----
From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:52:35
To:<tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: RE: [TUHS] Solaris 10 source code
Hello from Gregg C Levine
However, it happens that I spent some time talking with the folks at
the company in question, during the boot camp sessions that launched
Sol 10. It happens that the code is one hundred percent theirs. Now
there might be some lingering strangeness that follows from the BSD
evolved forms of Sol leading up to 10, that is all there will be.
Although I suspect a good hacker would be able to sort out the
differences and dummy up a working kit to support the assertions of
yours James Falknor, I myself do not have those talents.
However, Andrzej Popielewicz, I welcome your efforts.
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-----Original Message-----
From: tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org
[mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On
Behalf Of Andrzej Popielewicz
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:39 PM
To: James Falknor
Cc: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Solaris 10 source code
Uz.ytkownik James Falknor napisa?:
> To all the Unix Officiando's,
>
> Have any of you checked out the recent release of Sun's Solaris 10
> source code known as OpenSolaris?
>
> What are your thoughts on the subject?
>
> Is the source code still considered to be based on SVR4?
>
> Any likely chance of using Solaris source code to bring 32V or
Version
7 of Unix into
the modern world of x86 usage?
Thank you,
James Falknor
I did not check sources of Solaris 10 yet, but as an
owner of many
Solaris 8/9 licenses I will certainly do it.
As far as Unix Version 7 is concerned I see some chances . Let us
consider such idea .
For example Coherent is based on Unix version 7. It has also support
for
DKI/DDI driver interface (but not complete
implementation). Solaris
drivers as far as I know use DKI/DDI. So there is some chance that
at
least drivers could be in some way portable .
Probably using NetBSD would be also an alternative.
Andrzej
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