Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 16th Sep 2003 04:53 UTC
Sun Microsystems is introducing its Linux distribution, Sun Linux, a part of the Mad Hatter project, to the general public today. Sun Linux is targeting the Enterprise market and at a very low price. OSNews had a sneak peak at Sun Linux last Friday at Sun's offices and here is what we saw there.
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> Right now Sun has NOT put any [significant] Solaris code to Linux. I don't know how you got this impression.
According to the article, Sun has plans to port a fair amount of Solaris code. I quote:
"Solaris has algorithyms and optimizations that make it scale incredibly well, much better than any other OS out there. But as Linux is getting more mature and Sun engineers choose on moving these optimizations to Linux...."
I agree that to date they haven't contributed anything substancial. The fact that they plan to in the future is significant considering that 2 years ago, McNealy would have laughed at anyone who suggested the idea.