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Archives => 2007 => Topic started by: gunug on October 12, 2007, 08:13:24 AM

Title: The Next Best Thing to OS X?
Post by: gunug on October 12, 2007, 08:13:24 AM

There's a little article extolling the virtues of Sun Solaris as an alternative to OS X on non-MAC hardware:

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So what's an OS X nut to do when he can't tap the Mac's active and welcoming community, sumptuous documentation, gratis dev tools, out-of-the-box richness, and massive library of free and affordable software wherever he needs it? I recently found the answer: Run Solaris.
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As an aside, when I broach this subject, I always draw comments from readers who tell me that dude, if I want to run OS X on an AMD machine, it can be done. To all who would offer this helpful advice, I tell you with the greatest disdain I can muster to stuff it. You're all making Apple wonder whether its open source program, which is exploited to pirate OS X's way onto non-Mac systems, is worth the trouble. I have the same advice for my colleagues in the media who treat every advance scored by OS X scofflaws as legitimate news.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives...ext_best_t.html

Title: The Next Best Thing to OS X?
Post by: cdub1988 on October 12, 2007, 07:16:01 PM

Um, not that I'm a Solaris pro in ANY stretch. In fact, I know very little of it other than it's Sun's distro of unix.....but why not just run Linux if he's looking for open source?

I personally disagree with his comments about support being so great. If it were so great, I would suspect OpenSolaris would be taking a much greater hold........don't know if OpenSolaris not even being listed in the top 100 on DistroWatch means it's not listed there or it's just not as popular as he says.

Either way, it makes me wonder.....

Take care,

Chris