Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 9th Oct 2009 22:45 UTC
"Sun Microsystems announced the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System. The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems. Solaris 10 10/09 provides new features, fixes and hardware support in an easy-to-install manner, preserving full compatibility with over 11,000 third-party products and customer applications, including Oracle database and application software."
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I think that's possibly the worst excuse I have ever seen for the poor and outdated state of Solaris's userland. There is no evidence at all for trying to label Linux systems and the GNU-based userland as problematically non-POSIX compliant as regards availability of popular userland software.