Debian GNU/Solaris

An anonymous reader writes "Today "Nexenta" announced an initial pilot program of GNU/Solaris. Initial trials are limited to "Ubuntu developers and the entire Debian community". From the announcement: "As you might know, Sun Microsystems just opened Solaris kernel under CDDL license, which allows one to build custom Operating Systems. Which we did...created a new Debian based GNU/Solaris distribution with (the latest bits of) Solaris kernel & core userland inside. We'll open Nexenta web developer portal completely for the general public by mid-November. Today we are launching a Pilot Program. Ubuntu developers and the entire Debian community - you are welcome to participate in the Pilot!"

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Re:Where are the differences?

[jedidiah]

You give Sun and Unix in general far, FAR too much credit. Unix in general is a "just good enough" OS that was "designed up". This notion that you have that associates Sun developers with mainframe developers is simply assinine. Sun is still trying to recreate what DEC was decades ago, nevermind mainframes. The Sun high end kit is more comparable to a Beowulf cluster with a little bit more polish added to it (than the Linux equivalent) and has similar limitations.

          You are attempting to attribute to Solaris attributes that are not in Solaris at all. Although they exist to some degree in AIX and of course in zOS.