RE: [UUG/MLUG] Solaris Source to be released.

[Keith Kleiner <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think it is hard to tell the implications at this point.  Solaris
certainly has an abundance of excellent code!  However, Solaris was
not built from the ground up for the intel x86 architecture and its
peripherals like linux was.  Hence, from my perspective, it seems like
Solaris would need some major modification and updates before it would be
ready to take PC's by storm and compete with Linux, FreeBSD, and others.
Whatever happens, it seems clear to me that the end user will benefit
because now there will be that much more excellent code on the table to
choose from.

-keith

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bradshaw, Neil P. (UMC-Student) wrote:

> This is kind of heavy. Solaris is a big company, and for them to be
> releasing their source code is even bigger. I was reading an artice linked
> from Slashdot that the implications of this could severly hurt the rising
> popularity of Linux.
> 
> Here's the text I am refering to:
> 
> http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MichaelWhitmore/MichaelWhitmore2.html
> 
> Anybody have any thoughts on this?
> 
> -- Neil Bradshaw
>