Kernel work update

Bill Huey (hui) billh at gnuppy.monkey.org
Fri Feb 3 01:29:51 PST 2006


On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:16:56PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Sun is playing nice with open-source at the moment, but will
> :they continue to play nice when their stock price drops yet
> :another 50% ?  I dunno.  I hope so.
> 
>     They've released the source under their creative commons license.
>     If you get onto leaf its somewhere in /archive/OpenSolaris-20051207/.
>     It's spread over a bunch of places in there.

Sun is trying to figure out what open source is. They are unfortunately
very bureaucratic so it's unlikely that their culture will "get it".

BTW, ZFS is 128 bits so the VFS layer will have to changed to accommodate
it. Good luck with all of the recent change. :)

bill






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