OpenSolaris

[alistair]

June 14, 2005 marks the Opening Day for the OpenSolaris project.

http://opensolaris.org/os/announcements/

I wonder when someone will get this ported for PPC/Apple (even just for kicks)?

[Edited on 6-15-2005 by aisrael]

[Lakisalayaw1970]

I once played around a Solaris 7 desktop X86. The interface was KDE looking. With so many flavors of Linux around, I wonder how Open Solaris would fit in.

[Lakisalayaw1970]

For $hit$ and giggles I have a seperate X86 box with Mandrake on it. Mac OS X is so easy to use there's no point for me to use any other OS. My x86 box (AMD 1.2Ghz) dual boots into Windows so I can play dumb PC games and I don't even play that often.

[brutalModeFox]

Originally posted by Lakisalayaw1970
I once played around a Solaris 7 desktop X86. The interface was KDE looking. With so many flavors of Linux around, I wonder how Open Solaris would fit in.

Wow, you're lucky to have all the right components. I once tried installing Solaris on a Intel P4 and I ended up starring at the web based installer, telling me my lan card, my board chipset is not supported. hehe.

OpenSolaris would fit in because of Solaris' reputation for being one of the most robust and secure operating system, a true unix implementation they say. More secure I think than than the BSD (mac) implementation.

[Edited on 6-16-2005 by brutalModeFox]

[Lakisalayaw1970]

Originally posted by brutalModeFox

Wow, you're lucky to have all the right components. I once tried installing Solaris on a Intel P4 and I ended up starring at the web based installer, telling me my lan card, my board chipset is not supported. hehe.

It wasn't me who did the install. The machine was Dell beige desktop. Might have been an Optiplex Pentium III. I wasn't an office user and I wasn't keen on anything else.

[piedad]

I met one of the Sun gurus last year and he said that their real motivation for OpenSource Solaris is not for it to take over Linux, but to get Linux developers to look at the code and borrow or copy the better technologies in there....which makes better sense.

[xineizer]

Originally posted by piedad
I met one of the Sun gurus last year and he said that their real motivation for OpenSource Solaris is not for it to take over Linux, but to get Linux developers to look at the code and borrow or copy the better technologies in there....which makes better sense.

Who's this Sun guru that you met last year?

[piedad]

Originally posted by xineizer

Originally posted by piedad
I met one of the Sun gurus last year and he said that their real motivation for OpenSource Solaris is not for it to take over Linux, but to get Linux developers to look at the code and borrow or copy the better technologies in there....which makes better sense.

Who's this Sun guru that you met last year?

Matt Thompson