The Register has reviewed OpenSolaris, and concludes: "Sun has made good on its promise to deliver OpenSolaris, the company's Unix-based answer to Linux, with a company-supported, commercial update arriving in mid-May. Although far from a complete product, the latest OpenSolaris is impressive and in the long run could prove a viable alternative to Linux."
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Member since:2006-03-23
YES! lets invent brand new shit, to replace what we currently have developed over the past 40 years, which works pretty damn good.
I KNOW! lets all have a big f--king teletubbie doll with a touchscreen in its belly, then we can have various hotkeys located around its body. OH! i got one more stroke of brilliance going here, maybe instead of having a reset button, we just have a G-meter in its head, and if we punch it really hard in the head, it means we want a cold reboot!
YES! this will be a worthy replacement of my 40 year old /sbin/reboot.
Member since:2005-08-27
Haha, best comment I read in weeks
Member since:2006-02-10
Member since:2008-04-10
All I meant was that there are 40 year old flaws clogging up what otherwise works well. 40 years ago, they probably weren't flaws, they probably made a lot of sense. I just find it ridiculous that in an industry were hardware can change radically over the course of a year or two, we're still using 40 year old software.
Member since:2007-08-22
To paraphrase Linus Torvalds (and many others) - Linux IS NOT Unix. Nor is it a derivative of UNIX. Linux implements POSIX compliance, but it is NOT Unix. Furthermore, none of the Linux source code dates back to 1969. The fact that the environment is similar is more related to the fact that the environment is provided by Bash and other shells that also run under Unix.
Linux is merely Unix compatible. It is more closely related to Minix (also not Unix) than any other OS. It's implementations are its own.
Please, don't put fodder out for SCOG, Microsoft, and other pesky varmints.
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2008-04-10
When you're using 30 or nearly 40 year old computing principles, there's always copying to be done. Linux, Solaris and BSD are all derivative of Unix, which began in 1969. Before we can come up with new ways to use our computers, I think we need to come up with more modern ideas for how the OS uses the hardware. Something entirely new, and made from scratch. Actually, I wonder how much now-useless code is in the Linux kernel.