Sun moving in the pc world? (opens in new tab)

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9 pointsdarius18y ago7 comments

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This is very interesting! My first thought was, finally Linux on the desktop! Yea I know/noticed they put the Sun OS on this, but, well ... Unix, Linux ... if it can be done on Sun OS it can be done on Linux

I personally think, Sun should just adopt the Linux kernerl and maybe only turn Sun OS to yet another linux distro. Why? Well I support linux and this will be good for it! Plus, Sun is a systems company, not a software company, yea Java and all but if you read their financial reports all the money come from large projects, hardware and systems Sales, software revenue are minimal to them. So adopting Linux will be good for Linux and maybe save them more money than they make from Sun OS.

Finally I want one of those machine drools will look awesome on my desk, people will think I am the ultimate geek drools

maw18y ago

But it's the Solaris kernel that remains competitive. Solaris' userland is crap^Wunimpressive compared to what you get on a Linux distro.

rms18y ago

Who buys a $900 computer with 512 megs of RAM? I don't get it. They call these workstations?

iamelgringo18y ago

No one, really. But, the ad got me to look around on their web site, so I suppose that it worked.

Frankly, I'd rather roll my own dev box, thank you very much.

dreish18y ago

They did that to grab attention ("Wow, a Sun for $900?"), but additional memory is not outrageously expensive, as it is for, say, Macs.

breily18y ago

I just upgraded the memory in my macbook pro and I bought the exact same kind I would've bought for a non-Mac laptop. Its my first mac, so I'm no expert on whether it was more expensive before, but its definitely not the case now.

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