Re: Solaris source

Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 07:30:53 +0200 (MET DST)


> I was in a meeting a month back regarding the client company where
> I work at wanted to expand capacity (they are ordering a 6000E with 9GB of
> mem and 28 processors; my new toy! ; maybe I might get a chance to load
> sparclinux on it real quick for testing before I have to do real work with
> it;

Ultralinux has no SMP yet, and I guess noone has a SMP Ultra handy for
hacking...

> anyone know if sparclinux will talk to SSAs yet? i.e. fiber channel)

Some preliminary code is already written and I'll have from today on one
fibre channel FC4 sbus card with a SSA available for hacking...

> anyways during the meeting, someone made an offhand remark to linux and
> the sun people responded with "we are very aware of linux and are coming
> up with a plan to compete with linux" I guess we now know what they
> intended. A couple of other things were brought up but unfortunately those
> are NDA.

Several people in Sun already told me that Sun's main aim in the OS field is
to beat Linux. I keep telling them, hey, fight against Microsoft, but they
probably want to compete with real Operating Systems and not with Microsoft
crap...

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