Taking OpenSolaris for a Spin | Linux Today

Taking OpenSolaris for a Spin

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jun 12, 2007

“If you’re like most Linux users, you’ve heard of OpenSolaris,
but I’m willing to bet you’ve never tried it. One reason, as former
Debian co-founder and now Sun Chief Operating Platforms Officer Ian
Murdock explained, is that OpenSolaris doesn’t come as a packaged
operating system like Linux does.

“Murdock wants to change this…”

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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