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So has Microsoft retracted their stand on Open Source being a a cancer? They can't possibly stick to that story, specially after so many organizations are seeing the benefits of Open Source. Will MS really and their fanboys ever learn?

SUN is eyeing the entry into the larger mid to upper end business market thru Linux on Ultrasparc

CDDL is the license used by the solaris proyect, it doesnt kidnap yuor rights, also enables you to make fully commercial use of your work, and if you desires keep your work free. Open Solaris CDDL http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/

I concur with the AC from what I've heard about older hardware. You will need about 6-10Gb on your hdd for a typical full install - the hardware you indicate should be okay to run as long as you have enough RAM, just don't expect to run circles around the new hardware. ;)

x86 suppport for strange hardware is not currently as good as Linux, but, like Linux, this only matters if you have that strange hardware.

Give it a try. I first tried Solaris last December/January and I've just recently converted all of my Linux installs to Solaris 10. IMHO, Solaris 10 runs circles around Linux. Also look into OpenSolaris.org.

I have patched various machines with little kernel fixes (adding PCI_ID's to support the i810 chipset).

Ugh. Solaris uses a configuration file to map device IDs to drivers, which I like much better. I don't want to have to recompile critical system files for trivial changes. You can make changes on the fly, too.

See http://opensolaris.org/ if you want Solaris OS source code. If you want to make changes that get included back into the source tree, you need a Sun kernel developer as a sponsor for now. The applications you mentioned fixing are just as open source on Solaris as on Linux though.

They already did that*.

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http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=pie

Is 'crap' not at all profane?
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=crap
What about this?
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=shit
or:
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=bitch

Is 'crap' not at all profane?
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=crap
What about this?
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=shit
or:
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=bitch

Is 'crap' not at all profane?
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=crap
What about this?
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=shit
or:
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=bitch

What rulez?

Hint: It's in MM_MacOS.pm. Therefore, Mac rulez!

p.s. Dear Solaris, L33tsp3ak is unprofessional.

indeed

But I think the best comment comes from their website itself : "Our lawyer is making us say that OpenSolaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc."

indeed

But I think the best comment comes from their website itself : "Our lawyer is making us say that OpenSolaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc."

That's right sir:

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=ass

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=god

But they gotta pay. Giggity giggity!

311 Debug.info("HELP: Looking for a");
312 BST result = bst.find_tree("a", false);
313 result.traverse_find("a");
314
315 Debug.info("HELP: Looking for as");
316 result = result.find_tree("as", false);
317 result.traverse_find("as");
318
319 Debug.info("HELP: Looking for ass");
320 result = result.find_tree("ass", false);
321 result.traverse_find("ass");
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=ass&def s=&refs=&path=&hist=

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=ass&def s=&refs=&path=&hist=

- Moomin

maybe not have profanities, but try this search of solaris code: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=%22micr osoft+corporation%22&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=

FYI, the comment is in param.c, and is quite explicitly referring to the performance of the system clock, not the CPU clock. The amusing part about his statement is that modern OS X machines actually produce a hires clock signal in the nanosecond range, although I'm unsure about the actual precision of that clock. It's quite possible that Macs use a capacitor sub-clock to produce a more accurate (but less precise) signal.

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/cmd /volmgt/vold/dev_rmscsi.c#49

Fixed link.

Is always worth a search.... my favourite was this one

ip_ftp_pxy.c

Do not change this to sprintf

Anyone think that some "smart" bloke broke this code at some stage :)

49 #undef P0_WA /* that shit not done here! */


http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/cmd /volmgt/vold/dev_rmscsi.c#63

shit!

Line 759 at this link: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/gru b/grub-0.95/grub/asmstub.c#759 However, it's just GRUB code, so not really part of solaris, just something they've picked up...

These people sure think so :)

1) Simple answer: YES

2) From a CDDL standpoint, I think so, but you might not be able to from a GNU standpoint:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/licensing_ faq/#dual-licensing

Read up on the copyleft in the CDDL, it might be sufficient for your needs.

3) Solaris, at some point, is intended to be a distro of OpenSolaris. Sun will support Solaris. Other distros based on OpenSolaris will have their own support mechanisms.

Check out the discussion forum at PowerPC port of OpenSolaris. Cyril Plisko is a name to watch for.

Wasn't there still some problem like the DRI DRM not being ported or something?

DRI & DRM are not yet ported, but are being worked on. Without them you lose some hardware acceleration. (Though you don't need them for full hardware acceleration on nVIDIA cards if you use nVIDIA's recently released Solaris x86/x64 driver.)

This [link to Phil Brown's community agpgart driver] didn't work for me when I tried a few months back.

Solaris now includes its own agpgart driver, based in part on Phil's driver, as of the Solaris development build released today, and provides the source as well in OpenSolaris - see http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts /i86pc/io/agpgart/

I make it 23 'XXX's and 12 'TODO's just within the main TCP file: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts /common/inet/tcp/tcp.c

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http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/cmd /perl/5.8.4/distrib/lib/Test/Simple.pm#70

I wonder if the Sun Studio 10 Compilers can be used to compile Linux? Sun went out of their way to make Solaris compile with gcc.

Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That is, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason.

Also unfortunate in the CDDL is its use of the term "intellectual property".

that is actually part of SUN's source code and not already known previously open source stuff. /*
* Now, we need to initialize the control table with some
* good poop.
*/

It is in db_nis.c.

Don't forget about XXX but remember to not count things like perl and strings, only in comments.

327 hits for hack though:

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/search?q=hack&de fs=&refs=&path=&hist=