Solaris Open Source Move Began
As announced on Slashdot, Solaris has finally began it’s Open Source transition. The OpenSolaris.org website has opened with the first pieces of open source code released. Discussions about this had been going on for ages and everyone knew it was going to happen. The suprising part comes from the fact that it already has community support. Gentoo is gaining some serious expansion. Words about GentooBSD had been flying around, now GentooSolaris is becoming a reality with “Portaris”.
Sun Microsystems seems to like using the Open prefix and .org suffix for their open source projects. Will OpenJava.org open soon?
The Gentoo weekly newsletter also had other interesting informations, such as a PC vendor selling PowerPC desktops powered by Gentoo and Gentoo being installed on the MiniMac. It was probably the first attempt at installing Linux on Apple’s new machine ever.