Time to Take OpenSolaris Seriously?

“OpenSolaris started off in early 2005 as Solaris released under
the CDDL license. Most of Solaris, that is. A few small parts are
still binary-only and not open source, but the kernel and
everything people care about are fully open source. The commotion
around the CDDL vs. GPL debate you may have heard is that the two
are not compatible. Source code developed under the CDDL will
likely never find its way into Linux, which means no ZFS or DTrace
on Linux. On the bright side, Linux is finding its way into
OpenSolaris.

“Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux, was hired by Sun to lead
Project Indiana. The primary goal of this project was to give
OpenSolaris a GNU userland and improved package management
system.

“OpenSolaris is not really a fork of Solaris, but rather a new
development model. Sun has been criticized for jumping on the open
source bandwagon for publicity alone—especially after its
MySQL acquisition—but in reality, Sun has fully adopted open
source ideals. OpenSolaris development efforts are led by Sun
engineers, and improvements do make their way back into Solaris
itself. The iSCSI Target support project was the most relevant to
me. Community development took off, and very quickly we had iSCSI
Target support in Solaris 10, Update 4.”

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