Star Sun: 'OpenSolaris Will Challenge Linux'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Sep 2007 17:20 UTC, submitted by adstro
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris Sun seeks to apply the lessons of Linux and turn open source Solaris into an operating system to rival Linux and to be as commonly used as Java. Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. In addition, Sun released Update 4 for Solaris 10 (also called Solaris 08/07), introducing a major enhancement in its OS virtualization technology called Solaris Containers.
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I'm happy to hear
by SReilly on Tue 4th Sep 2007 17:46 UTC
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2006-12-28

... Sun is learning from it's mistakes of the past. Sun's willingness to change it's development model has got to be one of the best ideas they have had in years.

I'm also glad they have Murdock on board. Just check out this comment.

"With Linux, what happened was there was a void and people filled it," Murdock said, referring to the large number of Linux distributions in the market. "Everything we do here is to allow for flexibility, so there is the possibility of multiple distributions."

Sounds like a good action plan for getting people on board.

When I first started administering Solaris, I was a bit put off with the unavailability of good GUI config tools. Obviously, Sun's online documentation helped in enabling me to quickly overcome that step and start editing text config files. There are good GUI config tools that come preinstalled but they are not easy to find as they are no links to them on the desktop. Hopefully, this barrier to mass adoption will be addressed in project Indiana.

I know many Solaris admins don't want the OS to turn into a Linux clone but the idea of creating multiple distributions to tailor for more tastes sounds like a bonus to me. I would never run OpenSolaris on a server, that's what the enterprise version is for, But a more bleeding edge distribution I could well see myself running on the desktop, something I am loathed to do today.

Here is to a one CD, desktop friendly Solaris distro!

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