Waaaay OT: OpenSolaris

[Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

From: Marco Benton <marco at xssnet.com>
> to play devils' advocate...  why would Sun need to?
> they are playing the M$ game of sorts; "flood all UNIX workstations with 
> Slowaris and software will follow...".  you dont see much commercial 
> software binaries for Linux/Alpha (never mind Tru64), although that 
> seems to be changing!

Actually, Sun's Opteron's systems designs are great for Linux too.
But Opteron/x86-64 is proving to be quite a competitor to Linux/x86-64,
especially on servers.

> now only if i can get my DRM enabled mp3 player to work on linux i
> would have no need for M$ at all.

I don't think you realize the "root cause" of your problem there.  ;-ppp



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