[geeks] Sun is developing a new LINUX desktop!!

[Jonathan C Patschke]

On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 12:44 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Very interesting.  Especially the bit about future solaris being LSB
> compliant.  Any solaris people want to comment on that one?

I'd have to agree with the reader's sentiment expressed in the article. 
  Solaris is Solaris, -not- Sun Linux.  Let's hope it stays that way.  
Or, to paraphrase the legendary words of Dennis Ritchie, "If you want 
Linux, you know where to find it."

I fail to see what would drive Sun to make Solaris look more like 
Linux, so that nonportable Linux/x86 code[1] might Just Work on 
Solaris, at the expense of irritating all the dedicated Solaris users 
and breaking binary compatibility.  I'm willing to dismiss this 
silliness as rumor, unless the same people behind Sun's website 
redesign have taken over SunSoft.


[1] And scripts, it seems.  Quoting from the "Standard Shell" section: 
"The two exceptions to POSIX (concerning . and non-readable files, and 
argv[0]) in this section are to accommodate bash."  Great, let's just 
step around POSIX and SUS so that no one has to take the time to clean 
up after GNU.
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Jonathan C. Patschke
Celestrion Information Systems
Thorndale, TX