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Can Linux and Solaris be married?

Can Linux and Solaris be married?Where Linux beats out other *nix competitors mostis in driver support. Just about any off-the-shelf hardware can be made to work and work well with Linux. That, plus the fact that you'd be dealing with another single entity if you chose Solaris, is why OEMs...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Dana, Sun Solaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Nexenta

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

Can Linux and Solaris be married?

Nexenta its symbol is a giraffe combines the OpenSolaris kernel with Userland, the open source filesystem. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: OpenSolaris, Nexenta, Linux, Sun Solaris, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-01

How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?

How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?RE: How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?The biggest thing would be that OpenSolaris has is the name "Sun" behind it. When some people IT departments included see "Linux" they see just a community of programmers and hackers, corporate and basement dwelling. Sun is...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Nexenta

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

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Debian gets FreeBSD kernel support

Debian gets FreeBSD kernel supportDebian on a FreeBSD kernelThis is good news. The BSD distributions have fallen so far behind the Linux distros in terms of ease-of-use and installation that I'll be happy to see what Debian brings to the table. I'll have to try out kFreeBSD this...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Debian, FreeBSD kernel, FreeBSD, kernel, BSD, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...

Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins

In my previous piece discussing the first four Open Source Commandments I talked a bit about the traditions of Passover, where Jewish families gather together to eat a festive meal and discuss our liberation from slavery in Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh (while the one in the...

Tags: Console, OSS, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-18

The Open Source Commandments

The Open Source CommandmentsFirst CommandmentShouldn't the first commandment be: "Microsoft is Evil"?;-)RE: The Open Source CommandmentsWhat about the other commandments:"Thou shalt insult anyone who criticizes open source""Thou shalt not use any other software except the ones we use"Religion and sciencewhat a great taste that tastes great together. Someone calls...

Tags: commandment, open source, Passover Family Experience, Open Source Commandments, OSS

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Sun's OpenSolaris community problem

Sun's OpenSolaris community problemGood premise, bad premiseQuoting the comment..."Given Sun's need for community contributions, which motivated the decision to make OpenSolaris open source in the first place..."Yes, OpenSolaris exists so that Sun could obtain free labor for development. In return, the company sacrificed the ability to sell, make a...

Tags: UNIX, Linux, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris, community problem

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Torvalds doesn't live in Indiana

Torvalds doesn't live in IndianaThere's two sides to any coin[i]"the more whining and complaining you hear about the leadership, the healthier the place is and the more freedom the members are likely to have."[/i]It can also be a sign that something is wrong and nobody is listening. The [i]"whining and...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Leadership, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Torvalds, Unix, Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2007-06-19

Could Microsoft take a community lesson from Sun?

Could Microsoft take a community lesson from Sun?Why would you learn from the loser?I don't get that... Microsoft learning from Google - good idea! Microsoft learning from Sun? Why on Earth? Sun's currently getting an arse-wooping in terms of C# vs. Java and in general the proliferation of Microsoft's .Net...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Programming languages, Linux Distro, Microsoft Corp., kernel, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., Debian

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Sun flirts with Ubuntu

Sun flirts with UbuntuAs I believe that Sun eventually needs to phase out Solaris, this makessense for them. They get a rock-solid server OS in Ubuntu, with a huge "cool" factor you can NOT buy. And, Ubuntu could get a huge credibility boost making this run on advanced Sun hardware...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Servers, Software Packaging, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2006-05-17

Jonathan Schwartz: Go free and open source or fade away

I was supposed to catch up with Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz at the SDForum event, “The Future of Commercial Open Source Think Tank,” but he was a no-show. He was prepping for a Sun board meeting according to Sun people I ran into at the event. I did...

Tags: Jonathan Schwartz, open source

Blog posts 2006-01-19

OpenSolaris says it's a success

I had a very pleasant chat today with Laura Ramsey, who calls herself "vice president of fun" over at Sun the official title is OpenSolaris Community Marketing Manager. The picture at right comes from another Sun executive-blogger. It's time to call Sun's "open source experiment" a success, she said. "The...

Tags: OpenSolaris

Blog posts 2006-01-19

Sun chooses zero barrier to entry

Sun chooses zero barrier to entryLinux is looking more and more like the poorer cousin.I know that may draw flames from the Linux zealots but guys there simply is no comparing them now. Solaris as open source wins hands down and is NOT encumbered by the GPL and that...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linspire, barrier, Sun Solaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenSolaris

Discussion threads 2005-11-30