Solaris on the desktop
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| So what does all this say about the prospects of a widespread deployment of
| Solaris on the desktop in 2008? Things certainly don't look very bright at
| the moment. Nexenta has changed its focus, while Indiana is nowhere near
| ready. BeleniX has started well and is currently ahead of all other projects
| in delivering a decent desktop solution based on OpenSolaris. But the problem
| with all these distributions is rather obvious: while all of them have got
| the basics right in producing usable live CDs with automatic hardware
| detection and a basic desktop, none of them have given us compelling enough
| reason to abandon our Linux (or even BSD) systems in favour of OpenSolaris.
| As such, desktop Solaris will continue to thrive on the workstation of some
| Solaris developers and perhaps make a brief stop on the hard drives of a few
| curious distro hoppers, but anything more that that is unlikely in the
| foreseeable future.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080204
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
Related:
Solaris Express Community Edition
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| It's been a while since we last checked out a Solaris Express Community
| Edition (SXCE) build, which represents the most recent work done by the
| OpenSolaris community in the road leading up to Solaris Nevada, and is
| usually updated on a bi-weekly basis. With yesterday's release of SXCE Build
| 81 we had decided to take it for a spin. For those that have never tried out
| Solaris Express Community Edition, it ships with the GNOME desktop (v2.20.2
| right now) and a variety of open-source desktop applications that one is
| accustom to seeing on a Linux box, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, and
| Pidgin.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=982&num=1
Sun to release OpenSolaris under GPL version 3
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| Sun is going to add the upcoming GNU General Public License version
| 3 (GPLv3) to OpenSolaris in addition to its current CDDL (Common
| Development and Distribution License).
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8979755794.html
Morton: no merging of OpenSolaris with Linux
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| Don’t expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux
| kernel, said a top Linux maintainer.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1295
"Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server" May Win Most-Flamable E-Mail Award
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| I just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation
| of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail
| with the title of, "Save a Penguin - Unplug a Linux Server Today".
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http://jetteroheller.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/save-a-penguin-unplug-a-linux-server-may-win-most-flamable-e-mail-award/
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