the whole bloody GPL is a political statement, what's one more restriction? As someone pointed out earlier, "BSD, Mozilla, and CDDL are when you want your code to be free. GPL is when you want everyone's code to be free". Precisely what the FSF stands for
In my experience, for undergrad... don't bother getting a calculator, I didn't use one
Either they're good enough you're not allowed to use them ever, or they just help you with the trivial things, and if you can't figure out what the graph of y=x^2+3 looks like, no calculator in the world will help you do well in even the most basic of first-year calculus classes
What you've just described is step one of cleanrooming a driver.
The code is free, you're more than welcome to do that with ZFS, but nobody has so far & zfs is really cool... obviously it's not just as easy as you describe... the only reason linux has so much filesystem support is because of the companies that added it... IBM added JFS, SGI added XFS, etc...
for one, v2 and v3 are incompatible (backwards wise, anyways) and Torvalds doesn't want a v3 kernel.
but let's assume for a moment that the licenses weren't incompatible. Solaris' vfs layer is quite a bit removed from linux's filesystem layer. A complete rewrite may be easier than a port in that case
it's CDDL, a free software license which the FSF *does* give it's stamp of approval for, with the caveat that it's GPL incompatible so Stallman suggests you don't license your stuff with it.
Apple's the copyright holder...
APSL doesn't apply to them, it only applies to people who download XNU from their website
Apple can do whatever they please with their code, it's their code
There was a local computer store in town that was selling them, and apparantly Acer shipped them to the store with Linux preinstalled. Some strange Chinese distro I'd never heard of... I'd reccomend the laptop, yeah... Served me well so far... warranty just expired and I've had no need to use it.
and no, I wasn't going for humour mods... my laptop actually shipped with Linux, and I did wipe it for FreeBSD (it runs OpenSolaris now, but that's beyond the point).
Look harder?
Every other laptop I see these days is an Acer. Hell, I'm on an Acer right now (the Aspire series run Solaris fantastically).
Quality's not bad on them these days and they're about half the price of the exact same laptop rebranded (Toshiba made a line of laptops that had the same hardware including case as the Aspire's, I imagine they were just rebrands)
The problem isn't noise, the problem is that you can type and think, but you can't speak and think. Even if the system were perfect, productivity would still suffer.
Even in cases of writing a letter and so forth... Imagine if you were writing a letter the same way you speak?
"Umm... Hello... no... Hi Jane, erm, I'm writing this... no, I'm sending you this letter..." and so on
Their version of UNIX is real. It's IRIX, and the 3d file system viewer is FSN. it does exist, and it did in '93 as well
nice try looking geeky though...
I switched from desktop linux to OSX backed with my solaris machine in the closet (after about 8 years of linux exclusivity) because I got tired of fiddling with linux stupidity... so my anecdotal evidence counters yours i guess
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the whole bloody GPL is a political statement, what's one more restriction? As someone pointed out earlier, "BSD, Mozilla, and CDDL are when you want your code to be free. GPL is when you want everyone's code to be free". Precisely what the FSF stands for
In my experience, for undergrad... don't bother getting a calculator, I didn't use one
Either they're good enough you're not allowed to use them ever, or they just help you with the trivial things, and if you can't figure out what the graph of y=x^2+3 looks like, no calculator in the world will help you do well in even the most basic of first-year calculus classes
"Today you can get the same functionality with several cheap Intel boxes with either Windows or Linux."
Or UNIX for that matter. Solaris is free to use, and a support contract is about half the price of RHEL...
That's unfair, Linux is a fragile kernel as well.
Any other UNIX should only panic when flaky hardware is involved
you retain your copyrights unless you signed a waiver turning them over.
It being GPL, they ( kernel core, or samba ) only integrated your code based on the license you released it under ( GPL v2 ).
So yes, if they wanted to relicense it they'd need to track you down and get you to release it under v3, or CDDL, or BSD, or whatever
Why bother merging with Linux...
Linux offers next to nothing important that isn't already implemented better in Solaris
What you've just described is step one of cleanrooming a driver.
The code is free, you're more than welcome to do that with ZFS, but nobody has so far & zfs is really cool... obviously it's not just as easy as you describe... the only reason linux has so much filesystem support is because of the companies that added it... IBM added JFS, SGI added XFS, etc...
I seriously doubt Sun cares to add zfs to linux.
Not going to happen.
for one, v2 and v3 are incompatible (backwards wise, anyways) and Torvalds doesn't want a v3 kernel.
but let's assume for a moment that the licenses weren't incompatible. Solaris' vfs layer is quite a bit removed from linux's filesystem layer. A complete rewrite may be easier than a port in that case
FreeBSD is actually a good OS.
Yes, it's very nice
Mac users use it,
No they don't, they use Mach with a BSD api wrapper
Solaris is based around it,
No it's not, Solaris was on the SysV side of the SysV/BSD Unix wars (not a bad thing, Solaris is nice too)
and most of Linux is a cheap ripoff of it.
No, Linux is a school project based loosely off SunOS & Minix
either it's in blastwave or you can get an admittedly older, but compiled with the fantastic Sun compiler from solaris.kde.org
it's CDDL, a free software license which the FSF *does* give it's stamp of approval for, with the caveat that it's GPL incompatible so Stallman suggests you don't license your stuff with it.
Apple's the copyright holder... APSL doesn't apply to them, it only applies to people who download XNU from their website Apple can do whatever they please with their code, it's their code
that's John Romero you dumb twat
"I must say that this is usually just because the developers only have access to Linux boxes"
Solaris is free, all the BSD's are free... no excuse other than laziness
Solaris ships with a pretty huge chunk of GNU software in the /usr/sfw consolidation for those who want such a thing.
There was a local computer store in town that was selling them, and apparantly Acer shipped them to the store with Linux preinstalled. Some strange Chinese distro I'd never heard of... I'd reccomend the laptop, yeah... Served me well so far... warranty just expired and I've had no need to use it.
and no, I wasn't going for humour mods... my laptop actually shipped with Linux, and I did wipe it for FreeBSD (it runs OpenSolaris now, but that's beyond the point).
I've yet to see anyone using an Acer.
Look harder?
Every other laptop I see these days is an Acer. Hell, I'm on an Acer right now (the Aspire series run Solaris fantastically).
Quality's not bad on them these days and they're about half the price of the exact same laptop rebranded (Toshiba made a line of laptops that had the same hardware including case as the Aspire's, I imagine they were just rebrands)
Mine shipped with Linux, which I immediately wiped & installed FreeBSD, but I appreciate the thought
not to mention it's 3 times faster on some workloads, and at least 60% faster on others (mysql), all the while being more reliable and less full of security holes ("hello race condition, nice to meet you")
Linux is the Windows of UNIX... about time we all just jump off that crap kernel
? no, it'd be more like living in a society where 5% of the people who murder once, will murder again.
The % of people who murder once is pretty low. 5% of that is even lower
The problem isn't noise, the problem is that you can type and think, but you can't speak and think. Even if the system were perfect, productivity would still suffer. Even in cases of writing a letter and so forth... Imagine if you were writing a letter the same way you speak? "Umm... Hello... no... Hi Jane, erm, I'm writing this... no, I'm sending you this letter..." and so on
Their version of UNIX is real. It's IRIX, and the 3d file system viewer is FSN. it does exist, and it did in '93 as well nice try looking geeky though...
it existed as fsn on IRIX first... it existed around the time jurassic park first came out as well
"Mac users, on the other hand, couldn't care less what the other 97% of the world is using"
:) " but "PCs are for stupid old losers like this guy... you will buy one!"
What sort of bizzare universe are you living in? Mac users precisely care what other people use... Just look at apple's marketing for god's sakes!
Not "we make a good product, try it
I switched from desktop linux to OSX backed with my solaris machine in the closet (after about 8 years of linux exclusivity) because I got tired of fiddling with linux stupidity... so my anecdotal evidence counters yours i guess