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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:21:57AM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> _the_ last guy talking about it at all. So lets simply assume this: the Solaris
> UP market is already gone, if you are talking about the _mass_ market. This
> parrot is _deceased_! It is plain dead.

Not completely.  Many people who *need* to develop for solaris on sun
hardware will run solaris x86 at home (or maybe on a corporate laptop) to be
able to work at home and test the software there too.  I know one such
developer myself, there have to be more.

> So maybe
> the real good choice would be this: let the good parts of Solaris (and maybe
> its SMP features) migrate into linux. 

Before 2.3 and 2.4 there probably would've been much more contention against
something like this.  Even now with large SMP scalability goals, I think it
would be hard to get something like this to be accepted into Linux.

mf
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