Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Feb 2007 22:39 UTC
When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart. The question is which open source licence should govern the building of projects out of the company's technology crown jewels. The open source Solaris project began with a Community Development and Distribution License, and open source Java employs version 2 of the General Public License. Now, though, Sun likes the idea of governing both projects with the upcoming GPL version 3, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said in a speech and an interview at the company's analyst summit in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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2005-07-06
Intel 3945 A/B/G is unsupported on Solaris.
I never said it was. Just as my Broadcom Wireless chipset doesn't currently work under Ubuntu Linux though they are working on that.
However, it is likely the 3945 A/B/G will work with the ndiswrapper that is available for OpenSolaris.
However, expect further announcements related to Intel hardware since SUN has just announced a new partnership with Intel.
These things take time, and it isn't because of SUN alone. Hardware manufacturers are very picky about the details they give about hardware, especially wireless chipsets.