Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Sep 2007 17:20 UTC, submitted by adstro
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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2006-07-26
I will challenge OpenSolaris to have a distro that isn't broken and that I can boot from.
Seriously, I downloaded and tried 3 different OpenSolaris "Distros".
Has it ever happened with Linux that a bug got so widespread that every distro there is would be unbootable on certain processors?
With Linux there are always distros that move ahead and say "screw it, get a new processor", then there are other distros which stay behind knowing that it would break one someone's machine.
To me, the fact that there is a known bug that prevents machiens without SSE from booting in every OpenSolaris distro there is, is preposterous.
If it takes a week or two they should fix it, if it takes more they should revert back to the old assembler and not leave shit code out there for it to travel down stream to every single distro there is.
My forum posting:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=38099&tstart=1...
The bug that prevents me from booting:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6332924
Anyway, that was my experience, or lack of, with OpenSolaris. They need to change their mindset if they want to compete seriously with Linux.