Questions and some Noobie doubts after today's meetup.
1.What is meant by porting a software ? can a driver be ported (a driver which works under linux can it be made to work for the same H/W but on belenix ) ?<br>2.what is a PTR based GRUB ? <a href="http://belenix.org/content/New-BeleniX-user-almost-a-blog">http://belenix.org/content/New-BeleniX-user-almost-a-blog</a><br>
3.Turning the Clock back some time, what was the step by step guide to getting a belenix ISO ?<br><br>regards,<br>-- <br>Kunal Ghosh<br>BE 4th semester<br>Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering.<br>Sir MVIT<br>Bangalore,India<br>
<br>Quote:<br>"Ignorance is not a sin, the persistence of ignorance is"<br><br>Website:<a href="http://www.kunalghosh.net46.net">www.kunalghosh.net46.net</a><br>Blog:<a href="http://kunalghosh.wordpress.com">kunalghosh.wordpress.com</a><br>
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Questions and some Noobie doubts after today's meetup.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg@belenix.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:37 PM, kunal ghosh<kunal.t2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1.What is meant by porting a software ? can a driver be ported (a driver
>> which works under linux can it be made to work for the same H/W but on
>> belenix ) ?
>
> You will have to re-write portions of the driver since Linux kernel
> interfaces
> are very different from OpenSolaris. However the result cannot be distributed
> due to licensing issues. GPL is incompatible with CDDL.
>
I have wondered if someone could take the Linux sources, adapt them to
solaris drivers, and host the binaries (or at least the sources)
independently somewhere.
Desperate users might then build from source themselves, and perhaps
even simply push everything into torrent based downloads !
Really, these licensing issues are a Chanakya style technique (Bhed -
infighting and internal disagreement) of ensuring that FOSS does not
go ahead. This is almost like "exactly upto one God" vs "Not more than
one God" arguments that I'd read in Arthur Clarke's 3001 Space
Odyssey.
-- Sriram