Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

[Steve Block <scblock@ev-15.com>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:26:21AM +0800, Heimdall Midgard wrote:
> 2005/11/4, Yuriy Kuznetsov <yuriy.kuznetsov@gmail.com>:
>
> [trimmed]
>
> > I do agree with Lars regarding Solaris being on edge of advanced
> > technologies. Besides S10 now open sourced (visit www.opensolaris.org,
> > download and try yourself, also plenty of blogs by different
> > categories) to community and Sun is planning to work very close with
> > community developing future releases of Solaris.
> > I'm not here to say anything against Debian but it's very difficult to
> > say which one is the best unless you give it a try...
>
> I think it's time we emphasize the fact that Debian is not (just)
> Linux. Debian also comes in BSD and GNU/Hurd flavors. If Open Soalries
> is free as well as open, you can be sure some develepors are already
> working on a Solaris port that will make the claim moot. When such a
> thing happens, it would be like claiming Debian is a better OS than
> Red Hat.

There is in fact just such a Debian GNU/Solaris project in the works. I
ran across it on OSNews a short while back.

http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki

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