Solaris + OS X
While I run Windows XP on my laptop, my friends know that I am a big big fan and advocate of FreeBSD, Sun Solaris and Apple Mac OS X. Keep these facts.
Beside my faith and believe in Sun, now I am afraid they are going the wrong way. In fact, Sun without Bill Joy is like Apple without Steve Jobs. People in sun are officially starting to act weird:
As you know, we recently unveiled Solaris 10, the world's highest volume and most secure UNIX, running on all volume platforms - SPARC and both AMD and Intel x64. We've seen a huge rush of downloads (topping 1.5 million licenses) - and as you continue exploring the x64 platform as an alternative for your users, the opportunity to join forces on an operating system seems readily at hand.from Jonathan Schwartz blogSo I'd like to personally invite you to adopt Solaris 10 as the underpinning of the next generation Mac. We both respect Unix, both respect innovation, and both clearly see volume opportunities in extending choice to developers. We'd love to work together.
I am afraid he's not sure what he is talking about. Solaris is not mature enough for serious jobs on x86. And what would motivate apple to discard its own BSD-like licensed platform (which because of derivation from FreeBSD project, is already mature and stable on x86 platform) and switch to Solaris?
Maybe it was a free try to promote Solaris. But instead of chattering and issuing free advise to people, I'd suggest them to work on better products and realize the promises they've made about ZFS and their other unfinished projects.
I think that Mac OS X is matured enough on FreeBSD basis and there's no need to change underlying platform. I love my mac powered by Samba, Apache, Safari and other great apps by open source community which is user friendly (unlike Linux) and secure (unlike Windows)
هي بابك چطوري . فكر ميكنم اپل هم براي رسيدن به مقصود راه زيادي رو بايد بره . داشتن يك كرنل سازگار با معماريهاي اينتل تازه اوليه خوانه . براي توسعه درايورها و سازگاري با استانداردهائي كه سالهاست روي معماريهاي سازگار با اينتل توسعه داده شده اند و اپل از اونها غافل بوده راه زياده بايد طي بشه . خوشحالي و ذوق زدگي رفيقت از سان و نوشته اش نشون ميده چندان موجود روشن و با سوادي نيست ؛ حالا چرا توجهت رو جلب كرده نميدونم . موفق باشي
I'm hard pressed to understand why anyone would want or need Solaris X86. FreeBSD is probably the best X86 unix you can run, Mac OS X is arguably just as good if not better (at least in terms of UI glitz). Linux is not far behind BSD in my opinion.
I don't see a future for Solaris X86, although I am very open to someone convincing me otherwise.