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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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