[wplug] Linux OpenSolaris comparision

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 09:55:16 EST 2005


On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:29:14 -0500, Carl Trusiak
<carl_trusiak at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting article on Linux World
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1926567576;fp;2;fpid;3
> 
> I like the quote: "The competition won't be pretty. It will bruise egos and
> force hard thinking on both sides. But out of it, we'll get a better Linux,
> a better Solaris -- and a better understanding of what's valuable in
> open-source."
> 
> Personnally I think both will move forward almost despite each other.
> OpenSolaris will develop it's community.  It may take a long time for it to
> ever reach Linux levels but.....

May? Talk about understatement :) I would qualify that statement as:

It MAY take a VERY LONG time ___IF___ it ever reaches Linux levels -
which is not very likely! <G>

Zach


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