Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th Jun 2005 04:11 UTC
Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday, a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend of rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. 
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@Galbotrix
Well....Open Solaris ships under CDDL whereas Linux is under the GPL. And as both licences are not supposed to work with each other many of the open solaris tools like dtrace cannot be legally ported to linux.
That's actually incorrect. Legally it could be ported to Linux, and it could work on Linux. However, it could not be incorporated directly into the mainline kernel. It would have to be distributed as a seperate project.