Re: [TCLUG:8858] osOpinion: Tech Opinion commentary for the people,by the people.

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

What's more is that on linuces that have been ported to other platforms,
the experience is nearly identical.  Sparc Solaris and Solaris x86 are
quite different.  On a network consisting of alpha's, powerPC's, sparc's,
StrongARM's and x86's, the system is quite static across all platforms.

Even if Solaris were released under similar licencing as Linux or FreeBSD,
it seems more likely that Linux and FreeBSD would benefit from some of the
superior code in the Solaris Kernel and Solaris would slowly fade away.
I think he's forgetting why people begain running Linux and *BSD in the
first place -- of course the low cost is a factor, but let's face it: who
want's a commercial UNIX that doesn't come with traceroute? or a compiler
that works? or a capable packaging system? or any of the GNU tools that
people have come to rely on?

Peter Lukas

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Clayton T. Fandre wrote:

> Anyone see this yet. Not a bad article, but he forgot about one of the
> most important qualities about Linux; That is can run on just about any
> hardware imaginable and supports just about every piece of hardware
> created. Can't
> say that for Solaris.
> 
> http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MichaelWhitmore/MichaelWhitmore2.html
> 
> Clay Fandre
> cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org
> 
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