On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:03:42AM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
http://www.sun.com/2005-0614/feature/index.html
So, potentially features of Solaris that are more robust than Linux
will be available for integration into a less expensive offering?
Name one. :)
Seriously, no, the licenses are incompatible.
thanks,
greg k-h
Greg,
I am not necessarily a proponent of Sun. But, I do remember Sun
fondly as the first positive unix experience I had encountered.
This was during the days of the Sun -3 workstation based on the
Motorola 68k. Previously, my first unix exposure was HP's first
release of hpux on their 500 series workstation, which was from AT&T
without the Berkeley extensions ( 14 character file name limit,
commands with file expansion capability can't handle more than 100
files, and the like).
Since Solaris has been 64 bit for about a decade, I'd think something
in their Open Source offering ought to be worthy of adoption by the
Open Source community. I heard that DEC Alpha had a 64 bit OS before
Sun, so being the first may not be such an exploitable
advantage(acquired by Compaq, now part of HP).
If/when you take a closer look at what Sun has released into Open
Source, I'd appreciate it you could post your impressions to the list
(one or all of them)
Rodney
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