Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:47 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:52:07PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 21:25 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > > Alex Ross <alexross@gnusolaris.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > The issue... what issue? The http://www.sun.com/gnome issue? The
> > > > numerous-our-examples issue?
> > >
> > > Of course, that's an issue.
> > >
> > > Sun does not have the right to ship Gnome with Solaris. But I'm not
> > > sure they do so.
> >
> > but their loyers obviosly reads GPL differently. since they do ship
> > GNOME as their primary JDS desktops,
>
> I thought that JDS was built on top of Linux, not Solaris?
http://www.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem
> > among others GNU GPL software, gcc, tar, sed, awk etc...
>
> Things may have changed more recently, but all of the GNU stuff *used* to be
> only available quite separately from the actual distribution of Solaris.
> Can't remember the MarketingSpeak name for the suite of tools, for the life
> of me, though.
AFAIK, Solaris 10 comes with all these stuff installed by default.
Erast
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