Toshiba To OEM Laptops With OpenSolaris

ruphus13 writes to tell us of Sun's latest attempt to drive OpenSolaris adoption. The company has inked a deal to pre-install OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops. "Slowly but surely, major laptop vendors are taking to the idea of shipping systems with pre-loaded open source operating systems. The latest case in point is Toshiba — one of the longest-standing players in the market for portable computers — and its new plan to pre-install Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris on its laptops. The machines are supposed to ship in early 2009."

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[alexborges]

By far, the most ridiculous idea I have read in a very, very long time.

I mean, if Linux has trouble going mainstream, Slowaris is gonna take forever to gain any kind of traction in that space. Nothing trully userland runs fine in that thing, you cant play almost anything and GNU software, while very good when integrated by people in the know (like the linux distro guys), is a pain to make work fine in that other thing.

Anyhow: Sun, Toshiba, the worst of luck to you.