Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge)
Posted Jun 21, 2004 8:46 UTC (Mon) by
paulj (subscriber, #341)
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Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge) by frankie
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Sun reveals tidbits of Solaris open source strategy (NewsForge)
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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