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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

Posted Sep 27, 2008 13:42 UTC (Sat) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times) by jasonjgw
Parent article: Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

I think various people are working on improving that kind of problem. For example, David Bartley recently announced a version of Debian running on Solaris using the GNU libc instead of the Sun libc:

http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/gnusol-devel/2008-Septem...

That is exciting to me because it eliminates a licensing issue that prevents Solaris from becoming an official Debian kernel.


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