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Previewing the Next Solaris OS
Eric Boutilier writes "Amy Rich has written an excellent Solaris Express (Solaris 10) how-to and general overview. It covers how the program works, using the community web site, and what's new in Solaris Express." Among many new features, the TCP/IP stack has been redesigned, IPv6 support improved, and both NFSv4 and USB 2.0 support added.
The good thing about Solaris boxen is that they don't get virii and BSODs like M$ Windows^H^H^H^Hblows.
Your computer's BIOS is closed-source. There's also a lot of closed firmware in your perhiperals. Not to mention the software that runs your car.. calculator.. bedside alarm clock.. furnace thermostat.. checkstand at the grocery store.. wow. If you think about it, there's a lot of closed source stuff that could potentially fuck up your life worse than your PC locking up.
Oh, the horror! There's only one way out - you must bludgeon yourself immediately with a surgical 2x4! Although I'd settle for you never using a computer ever again in the rest of your miserable life.
You must be some kind of fucking lunatic (Linuxtic? Lunixtic?) with far too much time on your hands if you've actually read and audited the source code to every piece of software that you're using. If you've not actually done this for every single software component of every single machine that you use (which is the most likely scenario):
SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.
Record it, and post it online? In fact, you might see if these people are interested ;-)
Come on, all my Windows boxes have Minesweeper and Internet explorer! Boy, does Solaris suck because it doesn't have [ADD MY OWN FAVORITE L33N0XX SOFTWARE] installed in the default installation! Woohoo!!!!111
Besides, you got the facts wrong since it DOES have the bloody bash installed by default nowadays. Sigh. Lignuxers.
Does the GPL also remove your freedom to read and understand the licence, or is it just a case of more general ignorance you're afflicted with?
The GNU GPL and LGPL is forcing you to speek even if you don't want to.
What, did someone from the OSDL pop 'round, hold a gun to your head and demand that you use GPL'd code in your own software? No? Then where do you get the notion that the GPL forces you to "speak"?
Just think about it.
I tried too but it just made my head hurt. Maybe it's because I'm taking the same mind altering substances you appear to be on?
Lovely, so now they added support for USB 2. The only problem is that nothing besides their keyboard and mouse will work on it!
/.'ers but I'm sick of Sun's vapor ports.
Try getting a common pen drives or external USB hard drive to work on a Sun box with USB - it ain't gonna happen. All this stuff has been working for years on Windows and Linux boxes. I don't know about the rest of
HP-UX rules!!