OpenSolaris fans in a tizzy over 'Project Copy Linux'
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| Sun Microsystems has moved one mailing list posting closer to explaining
| how it plans to mimic the Linux distribution model with OpenSolaris.
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| The Solaris vendor spent the early part of this century mocking Linux.
| Next, it forced then CEO Scott McNealy to don a penguin suit and waddle
| around in front of analysts, extolling the virtues of Sun's own flavor
| of Linux. Then, Sun scrapped its own Linux in favor of selling Red Hat,
| while also mocking Red Hat.
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| Now we find Sun trying to imitate part of the development model pushed
| by Canonical and Red Hat. Even though Sun likes to hold tight control
| over the Solaris proper releases, you can imagine the vendor picking
| up valuable bits and pieces created by the OpenSolaris developer
| community, just like the Linux vendors do with the work produced by
| their developer armies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/31/sun_project_indiana/
Related:
"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/
What I Learned From Ubuntu
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| So, to sum it all up: I learned that distros can successfully deal
| with issues that OpenSolaris and Sun are facing, like how to provide
| the many third-party packages that users want, and how to keep them
| current. What we need to do now is figure out how to make it work
| for OpenSolaris, without sacrificing the stability that attracted
| many Solaris users in the first place.
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http://blogs.sun.com/kupfer/entry/what_i_learned_from_ubuntu
I tried to dirty my hands on OpenSolaris Belenix 0.6
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| This reminds me of my initial days with Linux - about 8-10 years ago -
| when we were forced to configure each and every aspect of Linux
| configuration to simply work out things. Today, most Linux distribution
| do not require any advanced tweaking during their initial installation
| - most things work out-of-the-box and distributions like Xandros have
| simple, 4 click install options.
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| It looks like OpenSolaris needs to travel a real long way, and journey
| has just begun.
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http://raviratlami1.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-tried-to-dirty-my-hands-on.html
Checking out Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris
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| I guess the appeal of Nexenta is... hmmm... I'm not really sure. It's
| running GNOME. It's brown. Looks an awful lot like Ubuntu. It's not
| using all GNU tools. Heck, it's not even using BSD tools. I mean,
| really, "ps ax" works on my mac and on my linux boxen. Does it work
| here? Nope. Gives me usage. The man page lies too.
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http://linsec.ca/blog/index.php?/archives/129-Checking-out-Nexenta-GNUOpenSolaris.html
Solaris can never be Linux
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| Things haven't changed much at Sun. When Sun launched its
| OpenSolaris project in 2005 it used the Common Development and
| Distribution Licence - which is incompatible withb the GPL - and
| some system code was not released.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12116/1090/
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