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Solaris Might Become LSB-compliant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the isn't-it-ironic dept.

lvv writes "Register: according to Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, Solaris - one of the most proprietary Unixes, might become LSB compliant OpenSolaris. Also some info about future of Solaris desktop (Gnome)."

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  1. Commercial vs. proprietary by yerricde · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Proprietary: Having a good OS and making money at it

    No. Software that produces revenue is called "commercial". The term "proprietary", when used in the context of copyrighted works such as software, refers to licensing that restricts your users.

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  2. Re:Sun and standards by Richard_Davies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > While their motivation may be purely profit-driven

    Um - aren't pretty much all (profitable) companies profit-driven?

    I mean Microsoft, Red Hat, Sun, IBM, etc - none of them are charities right?

  3. Re:One of the most proprietary? by alsta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your frustrations with Solaris are most likely due to, forgive me if I sound condescending, inexperience.

    I have never heard of a Sun Fire 150. Sun has a Fire V100 and Fire V120. These have two ethernet interfaces, which I think are called dmfe[01]. I don't have access to one so I can't verify that. You can figure this out by using prtconf(1M).

    To harden a Solaris box takes a little time. But it shouldn't take 4 hours. You basically need to make sure that RPC services are turned off and that you step through inetd.conf.

    Patching Solaris is a breeze compared to various Linux distributions, including Red Hat. Apply the latest MU and then either use PatchPro or Recommended clusters.

    You're right, Solaris isn't exactly point-and-click. Perhaps you should, as you suggested, stick with MacOS X.

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