Re: [SLUG] Solaris 10 to be Open-Sourced

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Wed Nov 24 2004 - 23:39:11 EST


On Wednesday 24 November 2004 11:26 am, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:22, steve szmidt wrote:
> > And it sucks! The big one! I forgot how poorly I thought of Solaris!
>
> I would beg to differ. The Solaris kernel offers quite a bit of
> scalability.

True, it does do that. But for me it still is a bad user experience to work
on.

> > Someone is even hoping/suggesting that now Linux development will
> > come to a grind as SOLARIS is available!
>
> Sounds like they are clueless. That's like saying all other Freedomware
> office development stopped once OpenOffice.org was founded.
>
> > Someone was clearly on something...
>
> Yeah. I don't think people realize that people don't use OSes, they use
> applications.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

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