GNU/Solaris?

[bhobjj]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/30/sun_gnu_solaris/
http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/gpl_v3_progress

That would shake things up a bit.

[deanlinkous]

Great articles! I am still hopeful this will happen. I would like to see another kernel take the stage and then maybe it would put things in a new perspective!

If Solaris is v3 then Solaris will be on my computers! Heck, if more development started going on with the hurd that would be cool. (Hurd just had a new release btw) Or take the BSD kernel and start a new project.

Thought about starting a petition for v3 solaris.

[danieldk]

Very interesting indeed! If this happens, OpenSolaris could build drivers based on Linux driver sources, and Linux could use interesting technologies from Solaris. A win-win situation if you ask me!

[uteck]

...Or take the BSD kernel and start a new project...
You mean like this? http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

[bhobjj]

The BSD license does not protect the software from "embrace, extend and extinguish" tactics. I doubt if Linux would be anywhere as successful as it is today without the GPL.

The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project Regarding kernel patches:


GPL code can be accepted in kFreeBSD upstream if they
find it useful enough, but it would go into separate gnu/ directories, and be
disabled by default.

[deanlinkous]

Not a big fan of BSD license. I think it is great that others want to give and not receive but I guess I am more of a give and receive kind of person. :)

Just tired of linux myself....

[danieldk]

I used to be a big fan of the BSD license, but these days I'm getting more and more convinced that the legal protections set up in the GPL et al. are important.

I am not tired of Linux :). Anything Red Hat'ish (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) works great for me. Two days ago, I gave RHEL5 Beta 2 a spin, it looks very promising. Unlike anything I have seen. Especially the integration of Xen, the improvements in SELinux policies, and the impressive free software Java toolchain (yay, Eclipse on a completely free environment!).

But you guys probably know by now that I am a Red Hat fan :).

[bluesdog]

I've just been 'test-driving' belenix0.5.1 live-cd.

It works quite nicely on my 'newer' machine -- a 2 year-old Athalon +3000, but failed, predictably, on my ageing Pentium 3.

qemu also fails to boot from the iso image, but that could be me not giving the correct parameters or something.

I have some 150gb unallocated space on a new 250gb hard disk, and am considering installing Something Different (tm)

I'm looking for suggestions/recommendations :)