[time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

[Magne Mæhre]

Robert Vassar wrote:
> 
> Solaris has some pretty useful timing/timekeeping API's.  You might  
> want to consider OpenSolaris, it's not quite BSD free, but the CDDL  
> is OSI approved.  For some reason or another, Sun continues to use a  
> 3.x derived NTP daemon.  I know the maintainer.  It's been a few  
> years since I pestered him about moving to 4.x, I should ask again.   
> It's likely too late to make such a change for "Solaris 11", or  
> whatever OpenSolairs/SXDE will be called when "productized".

Brian Utterback is working on getting a NTP v.4 beta into
OpenSolaris , but from the latest I heard there are still a couple
of bugs to be sorted out.

See:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=50953&tstart=0

for details..

OpenSolaris NTP project:
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ntp/


--Magne