Re: [linux] Sun releases Open Solaris

>On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:03:42AM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
>>
>>
>>  http://www.sun.com/2005-0614/feature/index.html
>>
>>  So, potentially features of Solaris that are more robust than Linux
>>  will be available for integration into a less expensive offering?
>
>Name one.  :)
>
>Seriously, no, the licenses are incompatible.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h


Greg,

I am not necessarily a proponent of Sun. But, I do remember Sun 
fondly as the first positive unix experience I had encountered.

This was during the days of the Sun -3  workstation based on the 
Motorola 68k. Previously, my first unix exposure was HP's first 
release of hpux on their 500 series workstation, which was from AT&T 
without the Berkeley extensions ( 14 character file name limit, 
commands with file expansion capability can't handle more than 100 
files, and the like).

Since Solaris has been 64 bit for about a decade, I'd think something 
in their Open Source offering ought to be worthy of adoption by the 
Open Source community. I heard that DEC Alpha had a 64 bit OS before 
Sun, so being the first may not be such an exploitable 
advantage(acquired by Compaq, now part of HP).

If/when you take a closer look at what Sun has released into Open 
Source, I'd appreciate it you could post your impressions to the list 
(one or all of them)

Rodney



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