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I'd buy that for a dollar.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Posted Apr 4, 2008 0:45 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Sun Microsystems' Next Linux Move (Seeking Alpha) by zooko
Parent article: Sun Microsystems' Next Linux Move (Seeking Alpha)

What they really need is an OpenSolaris kernel package with "Linux kernel personality" that would install as a boot-time option on an existing Ubuntu system. Probably easier to add a fake Linux /sys and /proc at the kernel level than to clean up the crusty old Solaris userspace.


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I'd buy that for a dollar.

Posted Apr 8, 2008 16:55 UTC (Tue) by captrb (subscriber, #2291) [Link]


They might be closer than you think.  You can install certain linux distributions inside a
Solaris zone.  Unfortunately, the only supported one is kernel 2.4 only and therefore some
really old distros.  A grad student worked on a 2.6 version, but I don't believe it is stable.
Sun may be working on it though.


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