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Is the Linux community afraid of Opensolaris?

c0t0d0s0.eu — Okay,okay ... i know the headline is a little bit provoking. But when you think about some comments from Linux proponents you could think so. This is an interesting development. In the years before, there wasn´t such comments. Solaris was considered as a dead end. But then the game changed.

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  • thall, on 10/20/2008, -1/+3Article tries to sell opensolaris as a strong competitor to Linux but doesn't make a very good argument. Asking developers to contribute to an existing project with more momentum is hardly a sign that they're scared of competition, mostly because majority of Linux developers aren't driven by competition.

    There's also a stigma associated with opensolaris: it's strongly tied to Sun. Not trying to be negative about the company, but while no single company has a controlling hand over Linux the same can't be said about opensolaris. This will deter many developers from donating their time and effort to that project.
  • hungryduck, on 10/21/2008, -0/+2They are both free. There's no reason to use anything you don't want to.

    I've tried Opensolaris recently and in it's current state won't provide an Ubuntu-like experience which is what inexperienced Linux users like me love. I can't say it's not developing into something great though.
  • TeeFour, on 10/20/2008, -0/+2For all practical desktop usability purposes an Open Solaris system is just a Linux distribution running on a different kernel. You get to run the same applications, using the same GUI's.

    It's the same thing as with desktop versions of BSD- PCBSD could very well just be the Linux Distro#244678 and nobody would care because all the differences are under the hood and have almost no impact on your "common user's" experience.
  • johndavidjack, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1I'm not sure if OpenSolaris is trying to develop into an Ubuntu-like user experience.

    I think Sun has the server market in mind when it's developing OpenSolaris, for the most part anyway. They've taken a number of steps to improve the UI, but I think that is more for administrators and power users that are familiar with gnome and the like.

    Sun's using OpenSolaris as the control domain in their virtualization product, and I believe the Solaris Neveda Development builds are previews of Solaris 11. So I'm not sure if Sun's aiming to replace Ubuntu, or provide a commonly used desktop OS. I use it as a desktop, and I have the same functionality I've enjoyed with various linux distros. In addition, I get a lot of the enterprise grade features that come with a hardened server OS like Solaris 10...
  • amoore2600, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1I want to like opensolaris but its just not ready yet.

    I wish Sun would buid a suite of multi-media aps just like how it has built a suite of office apps.

    OpenOffice + Sun's Multimedia suite would be very cool for "joe desktop user."

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