[wellylug] OpenSolaris stuff

[Rob Giltrap]

A couple of interesting things from the world of OpenSolaris.

First off here is a blog entry that sort of explains OpenSolaris and the 
variety of distros it is producing.

http://whacked.net/2007/02/13/opensolarissolaris-relationships/

The CDDL license ends up producing a slightly different result than 
GPLv2 but has already produced a quite nice ecosystem and diversity of 
distros.

Secondly one of those distros is the Solaris Express Development 
Edition, which is a slightly hardened but quite cutting edge release 
based on OpenSolaris and a bunch of other developer relevant tools.

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/downloads/solexpdev/

It's going to be released every three months plus you can buy support 
for it if you wish.

This is a departure from the Ubuntu/Fedora six month type releases so it 
will be interesting to see how it pans out.

I installed it and to my astonishment it was really easy (compared to 
normal Solaris installs) but the options where also very limited so may 
frustrate some people. I ended up going back to the OpenSolaris 
Community Release as my working install.

Having watched this transition from within Sun it has been a LOOOONNGGGG 
road but it sure is nice seeing the evolution of *nix the massive 
support behind Gnome and the improved development speed of X.org.

Cheers, Rob.