OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux?

sunBoy asks: "A number of OpenSolaris-based Operating Systems are popping up on the map. BeleniX (screenshots), SchilliX and Nexenta (screenshots) are a few OSes which have hit the headlines in the past couple of weeks. Some say OpenSolaris has a leg up on Linux - 'For Linux, we're trying to push many distributions through to compress them into a standard. With OpenSolaris, we are already at the small end of standardization. What will follow is more OpenSolaris distributions spreading out from that core.' Is OpenSolaris really a threat to Linux?" Less of a threat and more of an alternative. Would more Unix-based alternatives on the market really be a bad thing?

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Hey clubie, RTFA

[ikewillis]

Linux has long since cross the threshold where a typical user (an enthusiast perhaps, but not a hacker) can drop a CD into a typical desktop machine and get a working, internet-connected workstation. OpenSolaris isn't even close yet.

There's the BeleniX LiveCD which includes a Gnome desktop. Drop it into a typical desktop machine and get a working, Internet-connected workstation.

It Pays To Read The Article! Yay!

Re:evolution has already spoken

[richie2000]

Tell that to all of your dead ancestors. No one wins at life.

The ones who get to be ancestors are the winners, as are the ancestors themselves.

Life does not end with death. Life ends with the inability to create new life. The winners get to spread their genes, the losers' die off.

Therefore, Slashdot really is full of losers. QED.