Mike Cox wrote:

> Is Joerg Schilling the next Linus Torvalds? Joerg has advantages that
> Linus never had. 25 years of Unix engineering expeince. And a
> codebase battle hardened by professional Ivy league engineers. Unlike
> Linux, SchilliX, Joerg's OpenSolaris distro will support the proper
> SCSI commands. It won't be just a kernel.
>
> AIX is long in the tooth compared to Solaris 10. AIX lacks DTrace,
> Zones and other goodies. Linux doesn't have the stability or the
> features of Solaris either, but it was open source.

What "features"? Linux has had the capability to do "zones" for quite a
while longer than Solaris and has much better hardware support. Linux is
also FASTER.


>
> But not any longer, as OpenSolaris has been confirmed to be released
> in a weeks time from June 8th! OpenSolaris, SchilliX, and other
> OpenSolaris distros go head to head with Linux. I'll bet the
> superiour offering will kick some serious linux (and AIX) butt.

Your idea of what is "superior" is ludicrous.

>
> http://www.osdir.com/Article5883.phtml

And will continue to die the way it and Sun has been for some time.

One thing that might be nice, once Solaris becomes open source is that
someone may fix the fucking stupid ^H BS!