After using OpenSolaris now for two weeks or something i started to think about the different licenses and in irc someone said “GPL isn’t free, the CDDL is” i was wondering about this sentence and so i started to look a bit at both licenses. What i found out, is the following link, which i got in IRC. This link is old though very interesting and explains it very good. If i understood it correct, the GPL forces everyone to use the GPL; you have to put all your modifications of a GPLd “thing” under the GPL. Thus you’re forced to use a license; you aren’t really free, as the license is trying to tell you. Though as i’m not a lawyer this could probably be wrong – write me if it’s wrong and i change it :)

copyrights_licenses_and_cddl_illustrated

Anyway. I think the CDDL is much more useful.

Recently Rayne in #linux-forum.de posted a link to an Article, in which they wrote about VMGL. The whole Project seems very interesting and useful (respect!) anyway. I took this Article as a test, as i felt recently into a Problem with OpenSolaris Zones. I use X11 using TCP Connections within a Zone to the X Server of the Host. This works fine for normal Applications, but for more and Games like Urban Terror it’s not enough (30 FPS within the game on quiet good Hardware) – I’m not sure but i think using the Unix Socket would speed this up a lot. But as OpenSolaris Zones are totally different from a simply chroot where i could bind the Unix Socket – All my tries failed. Sym/Hardlinking doesn’t work either (logically as i found out). So for now, as i didn’t found a way to use the Socket, VMGL could probably do this Job.
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Today i wanted to calculate something in bc in OpenSolaris and found out that the guys who made that are very very user-friendly. Because instead of typing quit, i typed in quti and came out, too:

chani@yulivee:~$ bc
q
0
quti
chani@yulivee:~$

After running OpenSolaris some time and Solaris in general it’s time for me to think about this System. It’s a System i really really like, though i’m not sure whether i’ll use it much. But please do me a favour when reading this: It’s probably not conclusive, nor i really wanna compare OSOL/SOL with Linux. It is _not_ Linux. Though FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are the only System with which i CAN compare.

Let’s start at the beginning: The Installation of OpenSolaris went quiet fine, there’s just
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Here are two Screenshots of my gnome desktop within OpenSolaris. On the right side you’ll see a terminal where i issued “zlogin lunar” to login to the Lunar Linux Zone. As you can see on Screenshot 1 – lin is working without any issues. As you can see on Screenshot 2 i’m even able to start x11 apps within that zone and let them run within XOrg in OpenSolaris.

By the way, just in case someone is interested, the background is a graphic from “The Forbidden Kingdom” a film with Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Nice Movie, i like it, though never seen Jet Li in such a funny “art” before :)

Lunar Linux Zone in OpenSolaris

As i’m used to Lunar Linux and i don’t wanna miss it, i looked for a way to use Lunar Linux as a Zone instead of the available CentOS/Fedora thingy. This is the result

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OpenSolaris – the experiment

small side note: This comes without any warranty. I just wrote down, what i made in a more friendly-way for other readers :p

Most guys know me as an very happy linux user. Anyway. As i got already experience with FreeBSD and many Linux Distributions i wanted to try something else. I’m interested into OpenSolaris but i don’t wanna miss my Linux Distribution (I’m using Lunar Linux). Anyway i read that it’s possible to run “Zones” within OpenSolaris, thus i could run the Linux Distribution within OpenSolaris (though a bit limited). One of the things, why i’m very interested into OpenSolaris is the filesystem. As you can see i played around with zfs-fuse within my Linux Install but this wasn’t very useful. Here’s the blog-entry: something about ZFS

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