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> Well, the annual signed t-shirt auction happened once again.
>
> This time, Rusty managed to convince AJ & Bdale to name the next Debian
> release after the person who bought the t-shirt, provided it sold for
> above $2000.
>
> In the end it became a tussle between Google, Slashdot, IBM & Sun, as
> their various reps tried to by the t-shirt.
>
> The final result? Well, the next release of Debian may now be called,
> ironically, "solaris" ;)
>
> Somehow I don't see that one getting through :P

So are we going to rename "sarge" to "Solaris"?

I'd be quite happy if Sun would dump their legacy "Solaris" OS and call 
Debian/SPARC "Solaris" and fully support it on their enterprise servers.  It 
may save my company from selling some Sun hardware on ebay...

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