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

["Scott K. Laws" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think one of teh coolest thing will be seeing some of the things solaris
does best making its way into the BSD's and the linuxes ... Solaris has
teh best thread code and teh best nfs stuff I am told ... so I dont see
this as a threat to the free OS's its a boost .. more people on the play
ground .... more ppl shairing their things :)

Scott

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
> > 
>