Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th Jul 2007 19:40 UTC, submitted by Jack
Analysts familiar with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Indiana say that as early as this week the company could reveal plans to revamp the OpenSolaris operating system by incorporating key pieces of Linux software.
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2006-08-09
This is true.
I used Linux for a long time, but do to some odd circumstances, both of my computers (a Sun Blade 2000 and a Tadpole Sparcle laptop) are UltraSparcs with Solaris on them.
Compilation even with the GNU toolchain can be a serious pain in the butt when building stuff written to run on Linux. Of course, NetBSD's pkgsrc which apparently supports Solaris does not work that great either.
Not to mention the guys that managed to write non-portable shell scripts, which I can fix, but the first time I bumped into it was an eye opener.
Probably what is occurring is that people write stuff using the only environment they have available, the GNU, but wind up relying on the GNU-specific options. Not evil, but just ignorant (in the completely non-judgmental version of the word.)