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Ian Murdock Joins Sun

Posted by kdawson on from the long-time-admirer dept.

RLiegh sends us the second piece of news today featuring Debian founder Ian Murdock. In an entry on his blog, Murdock announced that he is joining Sun Microsystems as their chief operating platforms officer. As he put it in his opensolaris post, this "...basically means I'll be in charge of Sun's operating system strategy, spanning Solaris and Linux." In all likelihood one of his first priorities will be "closing the usability gap" between Solaris and Linux.

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  1. Re:Replacement Gap by Ilgaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    You people are really confused. Solaris actual userbase are happy with their stable/established workstations and servers. An OS not installed at your geek neighbour doesn't mean it is "dead" or "eclipsed".

    You speak like Solaris Desktop was considered an alternative home desktop OS and Linux took all userbase.

    Solaris is alive and well doing number crunching/CAD/Medical/Military work around the World. It is just not too easy to see it running in neighbourhood.

  2. Re:What usability gap? by cheshire_cqx · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nexenta.

  3. Already is one. by Penguin+Programmer · · Score: 2, Informative

    There already is one. It's called Nexenta and it's a melding of Solaris with the Ubuntu userland. They have a LiveCD you can try out and everything. Worked pretty nicely when I tried it back in September.

  4. Re:Shooting too low, again. by kripkenstein · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nexenta may be of interest to you, then.

  5. Re:What usability gap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    softpanorama has a long paper on comparison of Linux and Solaris with some interesting points.

    http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/solaris_vs_li nux.shtml