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

[David Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I thought Solaris x86 had been around about as long, if not longer, than
Linux.  Not to say that I'd choose Solaris over Linux (personally, I just
don't like it--try to argue with that logic), but I think that it's
reasonably stable and usable on Intel platforms.  For a corporation to
release a product like that, it's got to be pretty stable.

Dave Lloyd

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Keith Kleiner wrote:

> 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
> > 
> 
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