Google switching to Solaris?!

Net Llama! netllama
Thu Sep 21 22:06:24 PDT 2006


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> Seems (I could be wrong) OpenSolaris is the kernel, not the whole
> environment. Folk are working on complete systems, on which one runs the
> expected GNU tools and whatever GUI. I have seen live CDs. But no
> install. I think OpenSolaris is a great idea, but it is not a 'distro',
> It is 'just' the kernel. Nice, indeed. But not usable on its own.

You're mistaken.  OpenSOlaris is the entire ball of wax.  See step 3b:
http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/

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