Star Comparison: OpenSolaris, Linux
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Sep 2009 16:28 UTC, submitted by Robert Escue
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y Apart from Linux and the various BSD operating systems, there's another open source UNIX-like operating system (actually, it's a certified UNIX): OpenSolaris. There are a few key differences between Linux and OpenSolaris, and TuxRadar lists some of them so that Linux users can dive right into Solaris.
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RE[2]: So defensive!
by binarycrusader on Tue 15th Sep 2009 20:46 UTC in reply to "RE: So defensive!"
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One of the reasons might be that Sun, while being very generous with their own Open Source contributions, spoiled their image by backing SCO financially, and did a sort of mini-crusade against Linux before ramping up their OpenSolaris project. Cooking up the CDDL license that is intentionally not GPL compatible didn't help either.


Sorry, but this is completely untrue. At the time, SCO was shaking their legal fist at everyone involved with UNIX or GNU/Linux. Sun was *legally required* to license certain rights from SCO. Remember that Sun is a publicly traded company, so unlike most GNU/Linux distributions has a lot more legal requirements to worry about.

They did not "fund SCO" anymore than customers of SCO that licensed copies of SCO Unix did.

Edited 2009-09-15 20:51 UTC

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