Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris

suraj.sun sends in this news from The Register. "If you were hoping that someone would fork the OpenSolaris operating system, you are going to have to settle for a spork. You know, half spoon and half fork. That, in essence, is what the Illumos, an alternative open source project to continue development on the core bits of OpenSolaris, is all about. ... Development on OpenSolaris has all but stopped, so Garrett D'Amore, a former Sun and Oracle software engineer who worked on Solaris for many years, decided to do something about it. ... What Illumos is doing is taking the core OpenSolaris kernel and foundation, which is called OS/Net or ON inside of the former Sun, and creating a repository and development community around that. ON includes the kernel, C libraries, shell and shell utilities, file systems, and networking functions of OpenSolaris. 'We are not a distribution in a normal sense,' says D'Amore. 'It is more of a code base.' And one that Nexenta, Belenix, and SchilliX, who do create alternative distros for OpenSolaris, can in theory base their future releases upon if they don't like what is mdash; or isn't mdash; coming out of OpenSolaris."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F03%2F1911241%2FIllumos-Sporks-OpenSolaris" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Illumos+Sporks+OpenSolaris%3A+http%3A% 2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbTdxxF" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/08/03/1911241/Illumos-Sporks-OpenSolaris?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jjKpPy4pLPzC4b-pGD6Ea5WlPQE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jjKpPy4pLPzC4b-pGD6Ea5WlPQE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jjKpPy4pLPzC4b-pGD6Ea5WlPQE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jjKpPy4pLPzC4b-pGD6Ea5WlPQE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/J0T3Zogwel4" height="1" width="1"/

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