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:OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
May 6, 2008, 18 :45 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (5818 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"OpenSolaris, Sun's open-source take on its Solaris operating system, has finally arrived. Some people, like Jason Perlow at ZDNet think that this is great news and that Sun's latest operating system will give Linux a real challenge.

"Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I'm inclined to doubt it simply because OpenSolaris has failed to develop a strong developer community. For more on that see Ted Ts'o, noted Linux developer and CTO of the Linux Foundation, blog posting, What Sun was trying to do with Open Solaris. T'so wasn’t playing OS religious wars, he was pointing out that while 'OpenSolaris has been released under an Open Source license,' it doesn't have 'an Open Source development community...'"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
What does Open Solaris give the world th ...   OK, why get excited?   
philc
May 6, 2008, 19:24:09
 
I downloaded today their final release a ...   Still not good enough   
xlinuks
May 6, 2008, 20:42:40
 
> What does Open Solaris give the world  ...   Re: OK, why get excited?   
Tim
May 6, 2008, 21:34:10
 
What does Open Solaris give the world th ...   Re: OK, why get excited?   
Segedunum
May 6, 2008, 21:50:15
 
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says in the ar ...   Novell's threat is laughable   
Steve Stites
May 6, 2008, 23:29:20
 
Many organizations are running on Solari ...   Why get excited??   
paul
May 7, 2008, 15:04:13
 
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