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Solaris Kernel in Debian Distro

Posted by dcparris on · 2 comments
DevX.com; By Sean Michael Kerner 		Mail this story
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Sean Michael Kerner writes: A new effort is aiming to take the Solaris kernel (SunOS) and use it as the core of GNU systems with Debian-based packages. The effort could potentially represent an affront to Sun's open source effort OpenSolaris. Then again it might not.

[Sounds pretty interesting. I'm sure Sun is thrilled by this news! The question is, how will the GNU/Linux community view this? - Ed]

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Comments (2)

jimf ·
Sound rather bazaar to me, but probably no worse than the Debian-BSD project that already exists.
tadelste ·
Gentoo was working on it too.

YUCK.

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