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[News] [OSS] Interviews with James Gosling and Simon Phipps

Heat coming back to the Java flow

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| He points out that "Java has been functioning largely as an open source 
| project for many years" and that "the source code has been available for a 
| long time". All Sun has done is switch to using "one of the more commonly 
| accepted" open licences.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/heat-coming-back-to-the-java-flow/2007/05/07/1178390224546.html

Interview with Simon Phipps

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| Phipps: I think that there is a huge overlap in those worlds. One
| of the interesting things you discover when you run an OpenSolaris
| distribution like Nexenta is, my goodness, it looks just like Ubuntu.
| And you know, there's a really good reason for that: because it is
| Ubuntu, but it's got a Solaris kernel in it.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9624

Huh?


Related:

Linux and Solaris face off

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| He concludes: "There's not much Solaris offers us for development above
| Linux (I can't actually think of anything we would care about) and there
| are no IBM JREs available for it. [But] if Sun's freeing up of Java
| means IBM's API becomes more compatible, this might change."
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/13/readers_feedback_linux_vs_solaris/


I can't make it with my 512 MB

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| Ouch! Frederik Himpe is right: Solaris Express Developer Edition has for
| the minimum system requirements: 768 MB of RAM and 14 GB of disk space
| (80 GB is the recommended size).
| 
| Sounds like Vista to me.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2813&from=rss

Reviews.[H]omer:

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| I thought I'd see how our GPL-hating friends over at Sun were
| progressing with their "operating system of choice", so I downloaded
| Belenix to check it out.
| 
| Boot takes about 7 minutes. You get a nice yellow picture of a cartooney
| Sun character, dropping to a console with "Welcome to SunOS".
| 
| After a while you're presented with a Curses interface (hmm, very
| passée), asking for a keyboard language layout, and which DE you'd like
| (XFCE or KDE). I chose KDE for the hell of it. I would have preferred
| Gnome, but ... oh well.
| 
| I briefly see a message to the effect of "Starting X (keeping fingers
| crossed)". Ahem, yes ... quite. The screen blinks, briefly giving that
| familiar X11 meshed grey default background from days of Yore, then KDE
| appears.
| 
| It's a bit basic looking, and the fonts and icons are God-awful, colours
| too, but fundamentally this is just GNU ... with an anti-GPL kernel
| underneath, and some POSIX core utilities. I noted with interest that
| they are at least using udev. Ooh ... progress.
| 
| At some point I try to switch to another root console, but I'm
| disappointed to discover that CTRL-ALT-FN<N> does nothing. Oh well, it
| was worth a try, I suppose.
| 
| Sound, video, mouse, keyboard, optical drive, and HDD all work.
| Networking doesn't, and not for the lack of a driver, but because it's
| just not set up. I try the KDE panel, and a couple of other gooey config
| tools ... all complain about something along the lines of "your setup is
| not supported" and gives a list of those that are. The list comprises a
| slew of Linux distros. Solaris is not mentioned. I resort to the
| console, and a "Welcome to Belenix" document. It all looks a bit
| prehistoric. The doc harps on about setting up a static IP, and suggests
| a command and a particular config file. I try it, but it seems to be
| nothing more than a list of ... something, drivers perhaps ... who
| knows. All the usual Linux configs that I'm used to, are just not there.
| I find myself actually lost. Scary. My UNIX skills are too rusty for
| this old-school crap. I'm suddenly reminded of SYSV from 20 years ago,
| in all its Motif glory. Yuk.
| 
| Debian this ain't.
| 
| Needless to say, neither Bluetooth nor WiFi work either.
| 
| I give up and go to shut down. It doesn't. Instead it just logs out and
| logs back in. I go back to the console and type "shutdown -h now", only
| to be greeted with an error along the lines of "-h unsupported option"
| ... Jesus! So I just type "shutdown" and hope for the best. It just sits
| there. I resort to the reset button, eject the CD, then toss it in the bin.
| 
| I'm sure if installed this OS and spent enough time familiarising myself
| with it, installing drivers, and configuring it properly, that it would
| work fine. But the question is, why bother?
| 
| As I said, this is essentially just GNU, with an anti-GPL kernel, some
| core utils with an unfamiliar syntax, and a nasty looking UI.
| 
| I fail to see what makes this a "choice" OS.
| 
| But I guess Murdock knows best.
| 
| Well thanks Ian, but I'll stick with something a little less ... erm ...
| archaic, if you don't mind, like a 7 year old copy of Debian Potato, for
| example. No, strike that, I'll stick with Fedora (F7 due next month).
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