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Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge)Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge)Posted Jun 18, 2004 13:45 UTC (Fri) by JohnBell (guest, #12625)Parent article: Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge) "I can assure you, the engineers in this room write some of the cleanest code in the entire world." I am sure your engineers are human beings, and not living manifestations of Cerebro. If nothing else, Solaris x86 is proof that there are clay feet to be found in the Sun cathedral. Check your egos in at the door and release the code. Whatsamatta, chicken?
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Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge) Posted Jun 18, 2004 14:01 UTC (Fri) by frankie (subscriber, #13593) [Link] Indeed Solaris/X86 is NOT Solaris/SPARC. It was the old Interactiv Unix,so it has a different base code, a bit refreshed probably.
Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge) Posted Jun 18, 2004 17:54 UTC (Fri) by movement (guest, #871) [Link] Did this idea just appear under your desk one morning or something?Solaris is built from a common source tree for x86 and SPARC.
Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge) Posted Jun 21, 2004 8:46 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] Someone else has posted same already, but you're so wrong it's worth correcting you twice. Solaris is Solaris regardless of whether it's on UltraSPARC/SPARC64, x86 or (soon) x86-64. Userland is virtually identical. The Solaris kernel is a portable, essentially hardware-agnostic kernel, as you'd expect from any modern Unix kernel, other than, obviously, device drivers, and the really low-level architecture dependent stuff, particularly MMU related, which is abstracted from the rest of the kernel by way of the Solaris 'HAT' (hardware abstraction layer). Buy the Solaris Internals book if you care to know more.
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