Opening Day for OpenSolaris Project

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Not to be a wet blanket, but am I the only one not expecting much?

This is Soplaris, after all. What relevance does it still have?

Sure, there are a few programs which, for some reason, still only run on it. However, if ERSI can't be bothered to port ARCINFO to other unices like OS X, what makes anybody thing they will bother to port it to OpenSolaris/non-Sparc?

The best they can hope for is to have some bugs squashed. That's what Apple got by releasing Darwin. It didn't open the flood gates of users hungry to use a UNIX with unique features like IOKit or real time Mach threads. I can't even name a unique feature of Soplaris.

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Click here for a treasure trove of Soplaris bashing

I especially love this one:

VP: "Admin!! What the {bleep} is this thing running on my machine?"

Admin: "It's Solaris, sir."

VP: "Get it off of my machine at once!"

Admin: "But sir, Ed Zander told me that you should be running Solaris now."

VP: "Zander, huh? I'll fix him. Is he running Solaris?"

Admin: "No sir."

VP: "Why not?"

Admin: "If he ran Solaris, he wouldn't be able to get any work done."

VP: "Very well, restore my machine to SunOS, and put this Solaris crap on Zander's machine."

Admin: "But sir..."

VP: "That's an order! And tell him Scott gave you the directive himself!"

Admin: "Yes, sir."

-----later----

Zander: "Admin!! What the {bleep} is this thing running on my machine?"

Admin: "It's Solaris, sir."

Zander: "Get it off of my machine at once!"

Admin: "But sir, Scott McNealy told me that you should be running Solaris now."

Zander: "McNealy, huh? I'll fix him. Is he running Solaris?"