Re: SUNW SHIPPING LINUX

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

+----- From: sml13@cornell.edu
| APOLOGIES FOR BEING OFF-TOPIC, BUT THIS IS JUST SO UNREAL I HAD TO POST IT:
| http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/981204/cmp_media_1.html
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It's not unreal at all.

Solaris is perceived as being a "heavyweight" OS, suitable for large servers
but a pig for workstation use (there's some truth to that, but by and large
it's not a problem *any more*... early Solaris was an NTish pig with respect
to memory usage, though).  Sun's had its eye on Linux as a low-end OS, both
to address the "heavyweight" concerns and as an alternative to SunOS 4 which
is still rather popular in certain circles (much to Sun's annoyance), and
announced that they intended to support Linux for low-end configurations
several months ago.

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