Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 19:13 UTC
Google Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt will sit down with Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy on Tuesday morning to outline a collaborative effort between the two companies. It's not clear what the partnership will entail, but Sun has already begun to hype the event. More about this here.
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RE[2]: New OS....
by on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 21:51 UTC in reply to "RE: New OS...."

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Do not forget that there are only relatively few drivers for (Open)Solaris. This is crucial for a satisfying desktop experience.

Solaris (Open Solaris or not) is an excellent server OS. It's not designed for interactive desktop use, though. (Ex: the conservative emphasis on not caching disk writes so as to eliminate any necessity for data recovery that might not suceed, for example.)

I'm not saying Solaris will not be proposed for the desktop, though it is not a great choice for that. One of the BSDs or a Linux distro would be a better choice as all of the same apps will work and these systems are more tuned by default to work as both servers and client systems.

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RE[3]: New OS....
by on Mon 3rd Oct 2005 21:54 in reply to "RE[2]: New OS...."
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Note: Interactive use = mousing around under X or as a single local user. Solaris is fine as a remote server resource and great under heavy load from multiple client systems for things such as web apps, file services, and mail, as well as other transaction services.

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