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No Solaris 9 for x86

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the try-debian-instead dept.

Jon writes: "Unsurprisingly, LinuxWorld is reporting that Sun is not going to support Solaris 9 on PCs. The article cites a marketing suit who claims that the prevailing economic conditions account for this."

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  1. Prevailing market conditions... by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The market conditions are that Solaris on Intel machines is a total failure. As another poster in another argument mentioned: The only people who Solaris on Intel machines seem to be just taking it for a test run, and then they go back to their real OS (be it Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.).

    Just thought that was a little more honest than claiming it's the recession or Sept. 11th fallout.

  2. The Register's vultures wrong again. by zak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    UnixWare (now OpenUnix) is still in very active development. Check out the Caldera site.
    It's only the best environment to run Linux apps on a multiprocessor, so I see why The Register would ignore it :)