Toshiba will ship flagship laptops with OpenSolaris

http://www.itexaminer.com/sun-and-toshiba-ink-open-solaris-agreement.aspx

by Create • 18 years ago

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gaius2• 18 years ago

I think this is great, tho' I'd never buy one; I think everyone who wants Solaris on a laptop is already running it inside VirtualBox on OSX.

Create2• 18 years ago

I strongly stick to "The Right to Read". To quote from the old-new thing, the cisco affair:

"I fear the Cisco experience has done unseen damage to Stanford in the form of creating inhibitions against sharing ideas, information and developments with possible commercial value among our groups which have need to benefit from each other's work."

Which is exactly what OSX is going against, with digital restrictions management, the appstore idea and the rest.

Given the choice of windows tax or an outdated intel platform, I'd rather go for this one -- it appears to be the only credible alternative to OS X, supposedly working out of the box with dtrace (w/o arbitrary iTunes sh*) and the rest: all being more or less open. Otherwise you need to rely on good luck with the wifi/suspend/resume/acpi etc.

gaius2• 18 years ago

That is true but to sell a product you need to be solving a problem, and the people having the problem I need Unix on a laptop already have pretty good solutions available.

If you're willing to use Solaris/Linux in VirtualBox on Windows (just run it fullscreen) then all the wireless/power management stuff is already solved too for less money upfront that buying a MacBook, you can just use a cheap Dell.

Toshiba will ship flagship laptops with OpenSolaris

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