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Solaris 10 to be Open Source

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here's-hoping-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks as though Sun is going to open source their new Solaris 10 operating system. It seems to include eveything except some device drivers. They plan to model the Darwin and Fedora projects. Sounds very interesting."

4 of 432 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Solaris Vs Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Major commercial programs like Oracle, DB2, WebSphere MQ are supported on Solaris/sparc, but not Linux/sparc.

    If you've got sparc hardware, x86 stuff is a downgrade path you don't want to follow.

  2. Re:Solaris Vs Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Err, that's easy:

    It's faster (approx. 30% : Sun to challenge Linux to a benchmarking duel shortly with Solaris 10)
    It has N1 Grid Containers
    At $99 It's cheaper than any enterprise Linux distro.
    It scales better.
    *Even* More secure than Linux
    It's standard
    Solaris 10 runs RH Linux apps efficiently
    etc. etc. etc.

  3. Re:Can they do this? by dankrabach · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly what I am wondering. Solaris is a descendent from the ATT/System V branch of the UNIX(tm) tree, not the BSD branch. They license the UNIX, not own the copyrights. Wouldn't they need permission from SCO (or Novell? ) and possibly a whole bunch of other people/corps/entities to really Open Source this stuff? Feels like heat, still looks dark.......

  4. Vaporware wanring by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last announcement about this was proven false by Sun's own CEO statments..

    This will be the saem way with this announcement..

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    Don't Tread on OpenSource