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Sun Reconsidering Solaris 9 for x86
jeffphil writes "This article reports that Sun is meeting with a group of Solaris x86 users called the 'Secret Six.' The group was created to convince Sun to re-examine its previous decision to cancel Solaris on the x86 platform."
solaris for x86 is good for those who are teaching themselves solaris and dont want to spend god knows how much for an overpriced sun box. Kinda nice to throw it on your test box, teach yourself solaris, and be able to get an admin job that way.
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Sun should release the source code to Solaris x86 under the GPL. It'd squash linux like a bug.
Errmm, no.
The best features of it would be woven into Linux like any other GPL code.
A sunblade 100 workstation can be had for $1k anyone who can afford a pc and is learning solaris should be able to aford one.
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oh please. Sure, Linux is much better for small x86 boxes especially for desktop use. Solaris scales to 106 processors last time I checked. Linux, with all its design flaws, won't come close to that for awhile.
And before you label me as a troll, know that I am an avid Linux user and have great respect for it. However its got a lot of technical hurdles to clear before you can say "Linux is better than Solaris".
Just when I thought I had the last version of Solaris Intel 02/02 on DVD in Beta form.
Key word for Solaris x86... LAPTOPS! How else are you going to easily show %customer% your product without lugging around a Blade 100 everywhere?
Just compile your app for Intel and show it to them. iirc SparcBooks are pretty rare now..
Because it is needed something to make concorrency to linux to keep the "competition" for inovation... (as windows isn't except in market share, and only DoJ don't seam to see why).
Well to learn irix you would have to drop a ton more, to learn hpux same, for tru64 a bunch, for mac osx about the same amount etc. The only os's you wouldn't have to are linux, bsd, and aix. Just about no other common os's have ports to x86, especially not ones that will progress your career.
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Kudo's to Sun on this one.
It's not that I'm all that fond of x86, I just love the example that they are setting here. They make an executive decision, there is a public uproar, and they stop and reconsider.
Even if they don't decide to continue supporting x86, they have given us a clear signal that they are listening to our opinions, and are willing to negotiate/cooperate with the community.
That is what is missing in some Monopolies that have had a lot of media coverage lately. Some companies will do things that no one likes, completely ignore everyones complaints, and then pretend as if everyone was in favor of it the whole time.
More big companies should have an approch like Sun's.
Sigs are out of style, so I'm not going to use one...oh wait..
2.2GHz Uniprocessor x86 chips can smoke 4-way Solaris Sparc chips [...]
Heloooo... the story is about Solaris on x86. I won't go in the "Sparc vs. x86" argument, which is off-topic, but instead reiterate that on SMP x86, Solaris smokes Linux. Maybe sad, but true.
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Have you ever used a blade 100?
That $1k will buy a machine that's at least 4x faster from Dell.
AIX is the best UNIX in my opinion. WHy? Simply because it has SMIT. I was thinking of making a Linux port of smitty. smitty is a GUI (or a CLI) frontend for pratically EVERY command you will ever use.From creating logical volumes to setting up networking.Everything. You honestly never have to touch a command prompt if you use SMIT.
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Even though sun doesnt officially "support" laptops, Solaris still runs on a heck of a lot of em.
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html