Two comments.
1. Not only is Linux the biggest fish, it's by far the ugliest too
2. OpenSolaris development wouldn't die if Oracle only layed off the bottom 10%. They'd have to start picking from the positive sigma side...
Well, I've actually done nothing more than showing them there are alternatives to Linux. The 16 year boy was tired of all problems he faced with Ubuntu and is now a happy hacker with OpenSolaris 2008.11. Time Slider is really nice for kids hacking and then possibility to go back in time is A Good Thing. They both started out with Linux when they were around 12 when they found Windows to main stream (which they started with at around 7).
I think you don't really follow what happens out there. I've two boys, 19 and 16, and they both like to hack. In their community it's OpenSolaris that is the bleeding edge and Linux is just mainstream. You just wait...
You should love the polar bears and help them move down to the south pole so they can eat all the penguins. Then we might get rid of that stupid Linux and have real UNIX instead.
"If Sun licensed OpenSolaris under a GPL compatible license you can believe the two would immediately start mixing code. Major components like ZFS would be ported over night."
Really? What if OpenSolaris was released under GPLv3?
> OpenOffice (Linux's big free office suite)
Isn't it more like "Sun Microsystems big free office suite available for Solaris, Windows, GNU/Linux and more"?
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Shouldn't that be in imperfect tense, asked?
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Two comments. 1. Not only is Linux the biggest fish, it's by far the ugliest too 2. OpenSolaris development wouldn't die if Oracle only layed off the bottom 10%. They'd have to start picking from the positive sigma side...
Yupp, exactly the scenario I can see coming.
Well, all the other high-end IT companies are also down around the same (3-4-5%) so the market isn't actually saying anything about this.
Well, I've actually done nothing more than showing them there are alternatives to Linux. The 16 year boy was tired of all problems he faced with Ubuntu and is now a happy hacker with OpenSolaris 2008.11. Time Slider is really nice for kids hacking and then possibility to go back in time is A Good Thing. They both started out with Linux when they were around 12 when they found Windows to main stream (which they started with at around 7).
I think you don't really follow what happens out there. I've two boys, 19 and 16, and they both like to hack. In their community it's OpenSolaris that is the bleeding edge and Linux is just mainstream. You just wait...
But why? Solaris is superior to any other Unix or Linux so killing it should have been the most stupid idea they could have come up with.
Someone who has already thought of this... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/technology/24wafer.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Finally Microsoft will give up their so called operating system and go for UNIX.
You should love the polar bears and help them move down to the south pole so they can eat all the penguins. Then we might get rid of that stupid Linux and have real UNIX instead.
"If Sun licensed OpenSolaris under a GPL compatible license you can believe the two would immediately start mixing code. Major components like ZFS would be ported over night." Really? What if OpenSolaris was released under GPLv3?
Funny, I installed Hardy Heron and thought that it was mostly a copy of OpenSolaris.
nvidia worked like a charm when I tested yesterday...
That's all still under discussion. But it wouldn't help Linux anyway as Linus will not release the kernel under GPLv3 AFAIK.
I haven't seen ZFS released as GPLv3. Do you have a link?
This is only true if you blame the costs for incompatibility on the part following open standards.
Dell will. They'll offer Solaris now.
Thank, well whoever, I'm not living there...
"Can you do WYSIWYG GUI building in Emacs?"
In Emacs (and vi/vim) you do WYGIWYG.
Why ridiculous? There are probably put as much money behind OOo/StarOffice as ever on MS-Office. Only they have cleverer programmers at Sun.
"but you'll need a copy of all the source code. Got an AIX lying around?" Please see http://src.opensolaris.org/source/ for UNIX source.
You've got it wrong. Java is a stock ticker, not something you run.
> OpenOffice (Linux's big free office suite) Isn't it more like "Sun Microsystems big free office suite available for Solaris, Windows, GNU/Linux and more"?