Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Jan 2007 00:19 UTC
Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU GPLv3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK. "The next version of Solaris will include things like GNU Userland, which is already being attempted with OpenSolaris, while open-source solutions from other communities for things like package management also look very promising. Dual-licensing OpenSolaris with GPLv3 could make this even easier," said a source who declined to be named.
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RE[3]: I don't care about licensing, but the userland...
by binarycrusader on Wed 17th Jan 2007 01:13
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RE[3]: I don't care about licensing, but the userland...
by riha on Wed 17th Jan 2007 02:22
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RE[4]: I don't care about licensing, but the userland...
by ormandj on Wed 17th Jan 2007 02:24
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Yes, and I also know about Blastwave, and I can't stand either of them. 
No offense to the creators/developers/maintaners, but it's not what I'm looking for, at all. It doesn't address the problem of package management in Solaris, either, as it's not uniformly available across various installs by default.
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If you meant the /usr/sfw outdated/incomplete collection, I'm going to chuckle. :p
Most of the userland is 2+ years old, if not older. A lot of useful utilities are missing, so on and so forth. I don't mean to be harsh, I just look forward to the day it's more complete and more "updated". I know stability is paramount (I run servers, trust me - I understand) - but it can be hard to live without some of the "new" functionality, and with some of the tools being as old as they are - it's not just stability considerations keeping them crufty, it's lack of resources being applied to that area of the userland. There are arguments for both positions. 
I'm hoping they filled it out a bit more, and actually included relatively up to date versions of the GNU userland. /usr/sfw is a bit laughable at the moment. No offense intended! I do realize the "issues" behind a lot of the outdatedness, but there has been sufficient time to get that sorted (assuming it was a priority, which I somehow doubt it was. gcc 3.4 here I come!)
$ /usr/sfw/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
$ /usr/sfw/bin/gmake --version
GNU Make 3.80
$ /usr/sfw/bin/wget --version
GNU Wget 1.9.1
Etc, etc.