Getting Access to OpenSolaris

July 12, 2005 12:34 pm General

So there was an interesting discussion on tonight about giving developers access to an build so they could compile their projects – an OpenSolaris build farm. Diana Cionoiu who’s involved in the Yate project. Apparently there is such a facility on SourceForge, but their site seems down at the moment. While not a horrible proposal, it got me thinking into how useful it would be to open source developers – if indeed at all. Is it at all useful to compile an application, and run some simple regression tests without having access to other stuff? Some food for thought.

During the discussion though, Diano mentioned her 128K line – almost impossible to download a copy of Solaris when I suggested that to her. Another typical social problem that many have faced – and BitTorrent has helped hugely with this to some extents. Ubuntu has solved this in some degree by providing free CDs for people to distribute and I just wonder if OpenSolaris should be doing the same at some stage in the future.

Definitely some interesting problems to be solved and I hope that those interested contribute on opensolaris-discuss[at]opensolaris[dot]org.

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