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[News] OpenSolaris - Copy Linux, Still Behind Linux

  • Subject: [News] OpenSolaris - Copy Linux, Still Behind Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:13:42 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
OpenSolaris Project Indiana

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| With much anticipation by the OpenSolaris community, last night Sun had 
| released their first developer preview for the binary desktop distribution 
| that we have known over the past couple of months as Project Indiana. Ian 
| Murdock and company are optimistic for this project that will address some of 
| the existing Solaris adoption barriers when it comes to the installation, 
| package management, and familiarization along with revitalizing the user 
| experience.       
| 
| [...]
| 
| While there are all these improvements to OpenSolaris, this wasn't a 
| trouble-free experience. Among the issues we have encountered thus far (in 

| less than 12 hours of the Indiana Preview ISO being available) include wired 
| network interfaces that have been working since early Linux 2.6 kernels still 
| not working "out of the box" with Network Auto Magic, USB flash drive 
| problems, and EDID monitor detection of an LCD's native resolution. When it 
| came to the USB flash drive problems, several flash drives we tested had 
| worked "out of the box" and auto-mounted within GNOME, but for two we had run 
| into "Connecting device on port 4 failed" errors.         
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=899&num=1

Site admins have confirmed it's just a copy of Linux. Funny when you consider
the fact that Linux imitated UNIX (Solaris), even with Sun manuals.


Related:

Sun Updates Open Source Roadmap  

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| "There's a broad perception that Sun is anti-Linux or competes with Linux, 
| and that's not true," said Murdock, now chief operating systems platform 
| strategist. "So to have someone with a broad Linux background come into Sun 
| made sense."   
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3705326


Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' not a Linux copy

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| Murdock also refused to talk about Sun's FISHworks project – billed as a 
| NetApp killer. 
| 
| Sun has put some of its top Solaris engineers in charge of a 
| software/hardware effort meant to create a solid network attached storage 
| (NAS) appliance. The company demoed this project to analysts early this year, 
| although it refuses to give reporters the same honor.   
| 
| We did track down Adam Levanthal, one of the FISHworks leads and co-authors 
| of DTrace, at OSCON. He revealed that the product should ship early next year 
| and that it includes some special sauce above Solaris for handling storage.  
| 
| "I'm not going to talk to you about it more than that," he said, rather 
| bluntly. 
| 
| Why not just slap us in the face? 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/29/sun_projectindiana_oscon/

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