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By: » News to know: Apple vs. researchers; Drop ‘IP’ from VOIP; Local search | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Wed, 23 May 2007 01:12:01 +0000

[…] Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'Sun hires Debian Linux founder, Ian Murdock. Murdock's […]

By: » New Ubuntu (”Feisty Fawn”), Murdock’s gig at Sun, Red Hat’s Linux for “masses”; Desktop Linux marches on? | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com

Tue, 22 May 2007 22:49:12 +0000

[…] Elsewhere in Linux news, Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps writes: I'm delighted to be able to welcome a new colleague who's starting with Sun today. He is starting a newly-defined role as Chief Operating Platforms Officer at Sun, and is responsible for building a new strategy to evolve both Sun's Solaris and GNU/Linux strategies. The appointment is at the same time both brilliant and controversial, but is the logical next step as far as I am concerned…..Today my new colleague is here to perhaps guide the combination of the brilliance of Solaris and the pervasive and seductive character of GNU/Linux to start the next wave. Please welcome the founder of Debian GNU/Linux, chair of the Linux Standards Base and outgoing CTO of the Linux Foundation, Ian Murdock… […]

By: David M

David M — Fri, 18 May 2007 13:05:38 +0000

Well done Ian, now dont waste any time making Solaris GPL so we can put ZFS in the linux kernel!

By: paolo del bene

paolo del bene — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:04:52 +0000

i was to presentation of opensolaris cross over the italian sun microsystems
st benedetto croce 6 italy rome, they say that it’s a good operating system, for me
not, it has many problems for example requires less 768 mb of hard drive to be installed. than sun microsystems said that gnu/linux requires 2 gb or more and this is false, it can stay on a card, on a floppy, on a pen usb, but it does not requires so
many space. they want emulate gnu/linux on solaris, i think the time is not good to do this, and that there is many job to do again. they want use vmware or zen to use only 50 mb of space. 1 to have a native operating system it is not just an emulation
vmware is not free software as it is not opensolaris, they continue to say that is free software free software is only software under the terms of gnu general public license
it has again problems one of this for example is to the boot, if you want to install on a notebook where is windows and you want remove it, first you must overwrite with
gnu/linux or it does not delete the hard drive. other problems no good support of
bios and easy kernel panic. i founded many softwares of the project gnu installed on
opensolaris but there was not the sources codes for example gimp, gtk2.0….. this is
a violation of gnu general public license. if you want distribute cd/dvd/tapes… you need distribute the source code, why it is not said that what you put as packages could be in good conditions and then it is not said that you could find again on the http,ftp…. where you downloaded the softwares. so please invite the sun microsystems to respect the gnu general public license and to study the difference between an operating system and a kernel the kernel is linux the operating system is GNU/linux and this is a big difference. then they said that ‘what they ask linux’ is really GNU/Linux go cons opensolaris. is false they are using it as work for theirself. first they have given support to GNU/linux, now they are removing to install opensolaris. they are free to do what they want, but not to say that GNU/linux is going cons opensolaris. they was the first to give support and now they have changed idea. i solved them the problems and i have never received a thank a lot
they come to our conferences ‘university’ doing funny as sponsor, but then they are different from that really say.

awaiting your reply,
paolo del bene
paolodelbene@gmail.com

By: northxsouth : free software and open source news » Obligatory open source Java update…

Thu, 10 May 2007 03:22:10 +0000

[…] for the technology they’ve contributed to the general public. Remember that recently, Sun recruited Ian Murdock of Debian fame, who had been working at the Linux […]

By: JavaFX, Ubuntu Mobile, Thunderbird, testicoli al governo « www.ubuntista.it

JavaFX, Ubuntu Mobile, Thunderbird, testicoli al governo « www.ubuntista.it — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:57:22 +0000

[…] (Debian deriva infatti da Deb, la sua ragazza (ora moglie), e Ian, il suo nome).Ne parla lui stesso nel suo blog. Ubuntu Mobile ha da subito suscitato grandi speranze, e non è un caso che anche BBC parli del […]

By: Ubuntu | Daniel Robitaille: Sun’s Project Indiana?

Ubuntu | Daniel Robitaille: Sun’s Project Indiana? — Sat, 05 May 2007 10:01:02 +0000

[…] what is Ian Murdock up to these days? When he was hired in March, he hinted that his positions were still that “Solaris needs to close the usability gap with Linux to be […]

By: Sun's Project Indiana? « Robitaille’s Blog

Sun's Project Indiana? « Robitaille’s Blog — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:46:17 +0000

[…] what is Ian Murdock up to these days? When he was hired in March, he hinted that his positions were still that “Solaris needs to close the usability gap with Linux to be […]

By: Brandon White

Brandon White — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:16:39 +0000

Another one bites the dust.

By: Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:07:25 +0000

Personally, I still feel that Solaris and Linux can coexist; after all, Linux and *BSD currrenly do, so why not?

I don’t get all the people who act as if this is the worst thing ever. Complaints about Solaris-x86? I was under the impression that Solaris was originally designed specifically for Sun’s SPARC lines and that x86 was more of an afterthought…

Despite stabs at both OS’es, they both have interesting and useful features that the other doesn’t have, and anything that brings them closer together is likely a good thing.