Hmm, OpenSolaris strikes me as a good thing, the more the merrier. On 6/15/05, Fred James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All > It is possible that in saying this I shall be accused of paranoia to the > nth degree, but the cycle has always been for the proprietary folks to > offer some diversion to distract, any time it looks like ordinary folks > might be doing OK without them. Sun, HP, IBM - all have good folks with > great intentions working for them, and good products, too. But someone > is watching the bottom line and making marketing decisions there as well. > Regards > Fred James > Well, I think it's a good sign that the decisionmakers are on an openness and scrutability kick, it means that system software is growing up and that we will be seeing the merging/cross pollination of good ideas from just about everywhere.
> Rodney Mishima wrote: > > >> 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? Solaris does have some features for system management and observation that are supposed to be industry leading.[1] > >> Seriously, no, the licenses are incompatible. > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> greg k-h Well the license impedance is a pretty small road block, in all likelihood good features from solaris will start to show up elsewhere, myself I think that a cross platform implementation of DTrace [2] would be a good thing. (dtrace is a superset of the functionality in truss(1) or strace(1) that looks like it could make certain difficult types of debugging much easier) > > 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). > > 1. Tim Bray has a good intro to the conversations Sun is attempting to have around OpenSolaris. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/06/14/OpenSolaris-Blogs 2. Dtrace Documentation http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223/6mlkidlf1?a=view -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
