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The Open Battle Royale

zogger
Wed Aug 16 20:30:46 -0700 2006
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Nothing like a little friendly verbal catfight between industry giants. IBM is taking Sun to task on being really "open" with OpenSolaris. Sun retaliates with "Well, look at this, we are so open, and what's up with AIX, why don't you open that up!" and so on...

..hilarity ensues. I guess it's nice to have them fighting who is more open, because that means they might try to out do each other on actually BEING more open. Good stuff!

I've never tried OpenSolaris yet, anyone here like it/use it all the time? Good points/bad points?

The Open Battle Royale
Stephen Potter
Thu Aug 17 07:23:09 -0700 2006
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I use OpenSolaris regularly.  In fact, I decided to pick up my programming again and become an OpenSolaris developer.  Considering that I'm not a programmer by profession, and I don't code every day, I've gotten a half dozen code putbacks.

Good points, it's fast, it's interesting, it's coming along nicely, access to all the Solaris features including Zones, ZFS, etc (and before I can access them on my production boxes at work).
Bad points, it's still coming along (hardware support is "good", not great).  That's about it.

-spp
 

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