On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I would think it's the X86 that will be open
> source. Would be very impressed if they do that
> too with the SPARC version.

I doubt that it's the same capable Solaris that would come out - who
knows how much code has yet to be scrubbed from the Solaris codebase
just to make it open source?

Making the Solaris x86 would benefit Sun a lot though - since they don't
have absolute control of the hardware - they might as well leverage on
previous efforts for better drivers. I doubt that would be the same case
with Solaris for SPARC - heck they control the hardware there (well,
Fujitsu and Texas Instruments do have SPARC implementations, but they
tend to line up their chips to be able to run Solaris).

Now if only they'd make SPARC-based machines reasonably-priced... that's
going to be a good one (given that the SPARC doesn't have some of the
irritating side-effects of i386 like IRQ conflicts, among others).

> Questions for you guys here. Will you consider
> deploying it now that it's an alternative open
> source OS? For me, time will tell...

Maybe just as a testing server. I'm more interested in the
tracing/profiling utilities that come with Solaris. But on the
administration side - heck I really wish Solaris would have an advanced
package management with it! the package management it currently has is a
royal PITA.


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