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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!"
Onward, Debian soldiers!
Sorry Lars, it was me who was unclear -- I had detected your sarcasm, and I was quoting what you had quoted in your post.
I'll break it up a little more in future.
LeftWing
Haha.
I work with IBM mainframes.
The only "design down" they do was the same sort of design down that is talked about when people say "the shit rolls downhill".
It's reliable, have slow cpus, are is able to move massive amounts of I/O. The major benifits of a Mainframe, not in the software. The single major benifit of the software is that it's virtually unchanging it's backward compatable to since before the dawn of time itself.
Of course this is a nice thing if you loooove JCL programming. (which I don't)
I used to think that mainframes would involve some sort of cool super computing proccessing power and sophisticated sofwtare interfaces. But it's a mish mash of horrific menu driven interfaces, complex conglomerations of obselete languages and assembly written software that was probably mostly written 15 years ago.
Love Linux, mainframes suck unless you need them...
If Solaris software is anything like fucking mainframes run away as fast as you fucking can. Seriously.