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Red Hat, which Sun called just a "packaging company"
I think sun is wrong.

What a crappy title, linux after all is simply a kernel. The GNU tools are intended to be shared and used between OS's. Its as retarted as saying linux is a copy of FreeBSD.

not just copying linux but they also want to pimp dtrace and zfs to everyone, so they do have their own bling to flash out.

What a douchy title.

There are people in here insulting Sun for copying Linux.
You know Linux is a copy of Unix, right? By a guy called Linus? Linus. Unix. LinusUnix. Linusix. Linux. See?
Visually speaking... It uses GNOME. Which IS the same desktop environment as Ubuntu...

I can't believe Sun is being chastised for taking their proprietary OS and making it open. Yea it looks like Ubuntu, that's because they both use Gnome, another open project. Solaris has been around since 1992.

i don't get this title. OpenSolaris is not new. Its been around a while.

A bigger ecosystem is a better ecosystem. Go diversity.
Good for SUN for going open.

OpenSolaris is based on Unix (I believe it actually has genuine Unix code in it), which is what Linus Torvalds tried to "clone" (for want of better term) creating LInus's uNIX. Really, Linux has been copying the likes of Solaris in some way ever since it came into being.

I think somebody needs to read up on who-made-who here (including me, I should double check my sources).

Rah rah rah... How dare Sun release an alternative product for FREE to people that might be interested in something like that. The real outrage is that they use GNOME which is the same thing that Ubuntu uses. They just won't stop at anything!

lol, The Register

OMG FreeBSD looks just like Linux! Copyers!

Interesting. This has the potential to be everything Linux is not. The fact that they are working hard on an imaging system, and the fact that it'll ship with ZFS says a lot. Their license could allow them to do some really cool things the GNU GPL prevent Linux from doing at the kernel level.

I just installed this yesterday in VMWare Fusion. One of the coolest new features is the combination of ZFS and the package manager. With it, you can upgrade the operating system or install/upgrade software. If something fails or you break something along the way, you can roll back the change. ZFS snapshots can be taken instantly, and rolling back doesn't take any noticeable amount of time.

Linux is the kernel, GNU/Linux is the entire operating system with applications... If they are "copying" Linux, they are taking a Monolithic approach to their kernel? mehh
*Smart-Ass gets dugg down*

NewsFlash: Johnathan Schwartz is an alien!

Ok, maybe it's not quite that bad but The Register is sort of a "tech tabloid" in my opinion. They always go for the most sensational headline and this is just the latest example.

So, using open source software in an open source project is now considered stealing from Linux...?

...And Linux users wonder why no one takes them seriously...

what a crap title.. all these people need a history lesson

I'm so sick of people blasting Sun. Solaris is hands down the most sophisticated and most stable operating system on the planet. Sun has contributed massive amounts of code to the opensource community, and they've contributed code that was proprietary, which means they've had to work around existing IP licensed from other companies. High end code, hardcore, polished code, code your not educated enough to understand code. Solaris doesn't get a new scheduler ever 4 dot dot release. It's has the best smp in the industry, it's the best debugging tools in the industry, it's also got this silly little thing called zones you should check out, makes linux virtualization and chrooting look like it was written by a group of monkeys. Linux is has it's place but is has always and will always be ghetto when compared Solaris ( well maybe not since Linus and co. will now have access to the source code of a real OS ).

Indiana? Why would you want to be called Indiana? That was the dog's name!

I wonder why Sun didn't go with the Java Desktop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Desktop_System ). I though it looked unique, hopefully you can add it after they system is installed.

AKA Project White Ni**er

"copy linux" !!!! ,solaris came to light more than a decate before linux !

All distros are same (except ubuntu)

People seem to think that somehow code origin matters. posix is posix. Where the code came from is frigging irrelevant.
I must admit that I view OpenSolaris as a last ditch attempt to keep Linux from completely devouring Sun's lunch. I say if sun really wanted to promote progress, they'd take legal steps to allow ZFS to be freely implemented in other operating systems.

The original Unix was developed at AT&T and modern derivatives are commonly referred to as "System V" (V is pronounced "five") compliant kernels.
*BSD variants are derivatives of the Berkeley Systems kernel developed after AT&T unix.
SunOS was originally a BSD derivative, but around version 4 started incorporating many modern features of AT&T SVR4 (System Five Release Four), most notably the STREAMS interface. Since the release of SunOS 5/Solaris 1 it has become its own entity maintaining a Unix like interface and file structure, but no longer close enough to Berkeley or AT&T to be considered a direct descendant of either.
AIX was originally a classic example of IBM NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome, implemented from scratch but highly reminiscent of System 5. I've been led to believe that AIX 5 is actually Linux under the hood, but I can't personally confirm this as I've been lucky enough to avoid working on AIX for the past 7 years.
All Linux variants obviously use the Linux code base which was initially developed independently of previous Unix implementations, but has become extensively cross-pollinated over the years.
The OS X kernel is called Xnu and is a Mach architecture (which means it is a message passing micro kernel) but provides a BSD kernel API derived from FreeBSD's codebase.

from Brunson at fedoraforum.org

The installer sucks Monkey Doo Doo.

Your request for a free OpenSolaris 2008.05 CD has been received.

CentOS is a copy of Red Hat !

The Register sucks donkey balls.