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Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the will-diet-coke-kill-guinness dept.

Scott_Blayney writes "This guy contends that now that Sun is releasing Solaris 10 under an open source license, Linux will begin to wane in popularity. To quote, "Linux will probably not grow much beyond its current market share of about 10 % leaving Red Hat and especially Novell with a big problem." "

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  1. Re:Uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Somehow I doubt you've ever played with solaris..

    retard

  2. Re:The Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How does this get moderated up? It doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense to anyone that has even the most basic knowledge of the subject. Linus picks up a GUI? What does Linus picking up a GUI have to do with kernel development? Furthermore, what the hell does a desktop Linux fork mean? There are plenty of distributions that have many different desktop environments on them.

    "But neither are going anywhere until they innovate, simplify and give desktop users a reason to use it."

    You clearly don't know even the basics of the subject so trying to show you ways in which they have innovated is useless.

  3. THIS GUY must be embarrased (for life) by ylikone · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Now EVERY TECHIE knows what he said and it will haunt him for the rest of his life when Solaris has long gone and Linux is the king of all OS's.

    Really, how goddamn stupid do you have to be to make such a ludicrous claim? Afterall, we all know that nobody needs more than 640K of RAM, the world will only ever need a handful of computers, and MP3 is dead.

    HA HA HA HA HA!

    --
    Meh.
  4. Re:Erm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because the NSA is full of people put in place by Clinton and his elitest liberal buddies, and as we all know there is nothing Clinton and the Democrats like better than BIGGER government. What better way to plow through a few million taxpayer dollars than to write useless code for Linux when trusted Solaris was already available.