Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th May 2007 21:46 UTC
In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux. The project is one of the items on the to-do list of Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian version of Linux and, as of March, Sun's chief operating systems officer. Though he wouldn't confirm the name of the project, Murdock - who's from Indiana - discussed the project's essence at the JavaOne conference here Monday, and Sun spokesman Russ Castronovo confirmed the name.
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2005-07-06
You missed out on the Sun Linux several years ago. Sun tried that, and found that no one wanted a Sun Linux; they already had enough choice in the Linux space. What they wanted was Solaris, so Sun dropped their Linux distro.
Sun is open sourcing *all* of Solaris, as they get the IP rights straightened out. There's already several million lines of code that have been open sourced, including all of the best features (ZFS, zones, Dtrace, SMF, and most of the kernel).