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Torvalds on Opening Solaris

Posted by michael on from the writing-on-the-wall dept.

An anonymous reader sent in a link to this interview with Linus Torvalds, where the questions center on Sun's movement toward the open source world (and Linus' dismissive view of the threat posed by Solaris), as well as a few questions about 2.7 and the future of Linux.

8 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "It's like opening your presents on Christmas morning and finding a giant lump of coal in a box."

  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

  3. omg linus fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hfhssf0w43

  4. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    Fix the bug, for goodness sake!

    1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's not a bug, it's a feature. I mean, it does annoy idiot FP'ers, doesn't it? :7

  5. Re:a bit too dismmisive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your sig sucks. Dumbass

  6. Re:Oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this going to be posted in EVERY story now?

    Its already old. Even the AC trolls are crapflooding it now. Please do not mod it up and encourage people to keep posting it...

  7. Booting Linux,Solaris,Win on the same PC-HOWTO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am not a computer scientist or developer, but a theoretical physicist, please dont commment about my stupidity and ignorance in computer problems, I am already aware I know nothing about computers.

    I am mostly a SuSE Linux user and I use Windows now an then. I also need to run some astronomy solaris software, which come only as intel and spark binaries.

    I am trying to install Linux, Solaris (10) and Windows, on the same laptop, but I have trouble booting.

    My laptop is a Sharp MP30, transmeta efficeon 1.6GHZ. The structure of my disk is the following: /dev/hda1 -fat32, winXP. /dev/hda2 -came with the computer. Although it has code 88, not 83,it is formatted with ReiserFS 3.6 and contains a small linux distribution with plays DVD instantly. /dev/hda4-created by me by shrinking the Win partition-I installed Solaris here. Solaris gave the code 82 to this partition, which is the same as linux swap (a bit confusing). /dev/hda4 is divided in subpartitions necessary for Solaris. Linux fdisk does not see these subpartitions, but linux QTParted sees them, resulting in some minor problems while installing linux (I soved them) /dev/hda3 - an extended parition on which I created the logical partitions for SuSE linux.

    The problem: The Solaris bootloader marked /dev/hda4 as the active partition and can boot Solaris and Windows but no Linux (I am not sure, but I suspect that it cannot boot an OS installed on a logical partition). Before installing SuSE, Solaris worked great, I am really impressed.

    With lilo (and then with grub) I tried to make Windows, Linux and Solaris bootable. Lilo manages to boot all three OSes; unfortunately Solaris cannot load the graphical interface and hangs at startup. Grub can boot only Windows and Linux but no Solaris.

    I installed Solaris and then SuSE. I suspect that the SuSE installer changed something during the installation. I am thinking about installing Solaris again, maybe this action will fix the problem.

    In am sure among slashdot readers there are many computer experts who can help me. Thank you in advance for your help.