Re: Sun Support for Linux
At Mon, 11 Feb 2002 it looks like Bob Van Cleef composed:
>
> Has anyone seen any indication of a sea change since the press release
> stating the Sun was embracing Linux?
>
Hmm, well there have been actually two announcements in the last two
weeks that have raised havoc on the SUN mailing lists,
Solaris-On-Intel to be exact.
Sun announced that they were NOT going to release Solaris-9 for
Intel but only Solaris-9 for Sparc, they also pulled the free
downloads for Solaris-8 Intel ISO's but Sparc downloads are still
free.
That lit off a rage on the
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/messages list which
caught SUN off gaurd and they had a big meeting today, that is 6 of
the top posters of the Solaris-On-Intel lists and some big folks at
SUN, they will announce the results tomorrow or shortly after.
Posters to the list are divided, not on the Solaris OS but on what
SUN should do since it buckled in per-se'. Some say SUN is losing
it, (see stock prices) some say they are just in a flux.
I posted once stating that SUN would do good to invest in Linux on
Sparc hardware to help salvage the possibly soon to come "Sparc
Auctions" but my idea wasn't received well. Jeez I see companies
with hundred of thousands of dollars of pre-existing sparc hardware
just waiting to install a Sparc version of Linux but Sun as we know
it doesn't have a Linux release for Sparc. For orientation purposes
I posted the url of http://www.ultralinux.org/
We'll see. :)
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