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Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux?
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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...In a magical fairyland where people co-exist with dinosaurs and we live in gingerbread houses on lollipop lane!
;-)
Seriously though... this is a good question -- can the tortoise beat the hare? The answer is no. And I think we all know who the tortoise (read: slow) one is
Finially, a Linux is going to die story... in a couple years it'll be a linux is dead story... and it will be just like BSD.
Evolution or ID?
The game is over. Linux will probably be bankrupt by the end of this fiscal quarter. I understand the Linux stock has already been delisted from the Nasdaq. The shares of Linux have been tumbling ever since Sun first dropped the bomb. I understand Linux has laid off all but the core legal staff and some of the top marketing and HR people and the eighty-five story Linux building in Manhattan is already in recievership. Clearly Linux was no Match for Sun.
Until Solaris becomes a user-friendly and error free (and non-resource hogging) as Linux, then I would say no. But I would definately give it a run for the money, on the other hand.. Didn't MS and Sun just do a deal? Doesn't MS have a big beef with Linux? Is this MS's way of getting rid of Linux? CONPIRACY THEORISTS UNITE!!!
Its as if a million gnu/linux geeks suddenly cried out at once.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
respond to this. Then I found out it was this guy who was making these statements. Once I realized that, I sold all my Linux stock, wiped off all my installs, sold the house and have moved my family to the secret shack in the hills. After all, this guy has never steered me wrong before.
Short answer: Yes, with an if; Long answer: No, with a but.
I for one welcome our Solaris Wielding Overlords.
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Yeah. This is a guy who's linked sh to ksh, and doesn't mind that /lib is linked to /usr/lib!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
But if Linus finally picks a GUI and starts up a desktop linux fork, I will disagree.
I have tried to make sense of this statement.
I have failed.
KFG
"Not tonight dear, I've got a DLL incompatibility."
John
Open sourced Solaris might surpass Linux if and only if Sun released it under license that would allow me to make a Solaris distro, name it Slowaris, and still get away with it.
In other words, on a particularly cold day in hell...
Why not a Mach based Solaris. You take Solaris's crappy utilities, and Hurd's slow kernel. Then you have a real open source operating system.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Now the editors are just trolling.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!
What games will be available for Solaris?
BC
How many years has BSD been dying for?
Just like Windows NT killed UNIX.
'A lie if repeated often enough, becomes the truth.' - Goebbels
Whatever kind of weed this guy is smoking, he really ought to share.
What the hell is he talking about? People will use Slowlaris if it's free? Like that's the only reason we're not using it? Please.
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
Apparently Sun has been able to communicate with Linux user's over the Internet. They sent them the following message:
"We're about to release Solaris as Open Source. We're going to completely take over the OS market and if you resist us we're going to sue you for patent infringement. But we don't want to do that. So really the best thing for you to do when we relase it is to stop using Linux."
A: Snapple!
It isn't "user"? Screw this, I'm switching to Gobolinux.
Well, seeing how Solaris has this nasty tendency to take mental constructs and create physical manifestations of lost relatives, lost wife, etc., using a stabilized field of neutrinos, it will probably freak people out too much to really be able to take over Linux's market share.
Similar to the upcoming US election results
This is my fault. Six months ago I wrote an email to Sun saying that if they freed Solaris it might gain developer support. (true story)
Retired from software... maybe. Sort of.