On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:43, Soren Harward wrote: > For those of you not on openbsd-announce, the following may be of > interest (see end for my commentary).
:) I'm beginning to really hate this day. Slashdot is useless. I'm going to have to go do something useful now. > > ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- > > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:00:06 -0700 (MST) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sun to ship OpenBSD on its Intel-based workstations > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > April 1, 2003, 10:50 AM MST > > Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), in a surprise announcement, has > stated that it will offer the OpenBSD operating system as the default > operating system for its Intel-based workstations. The move came > shortly after Sun announced the death of its own Linux distribution, > internally known as "Mad Hatter Linux". > > This new direction comes on the heels of a strategic partnership > between Intel and Fujitsu, long-time Sun partner and manufacturer > of Sparc chips, to build competing Linux-based servers and mainframe > computers. > > "Our polling shows a strong demand for Sun-branded Intel workstations > running OpenBSD" said head of Open Source Solutions Brad S. Downey. > "Customers who wish to run Solaris generally do so on our > enterprise-strength UltraSparc-based machines. Anyone can sell a > PC running Linux, here at Sun we strive to differentiate ourselves > and produce a product with superior hardware and software. With > its dedication to industrial strength security OpenBSD allows us > to do just that." Both OpenBSD and Solaris have their roots in a > version of Unix developed at the University of California, Berkeley. > Downey stated "Sun engineers are more comfortable inside the OpenBSD > kernel than they are inside Linux. Furthermore, Sun has shipped > OpenSSH, an OpenBSD spin off project, for the past several releases > so we already have good contacts within the OpenBSD leadership." > > When asked about the recent tiff between OpenBSD lead Theo de Raadt > and Sun regarding hardware documentation for the UltraSparc III > CPU, Downey said "We have a good rapport with the OpenBSD team. > Our assistance in gaining access to hardware documentation has been > invaluable to them regarding the continued development of their > UltraSparc port." When asked whether he was worried about OpenBSD > on the UltraSparc taking market share from Sun's one Solaris (tm) > operating system, Downey had the following to say: "We don't see > ourselves as being in direct competition. While it's true that we > both give away operating systems that run on the UltraSparc CPU, > Solaris has a much higher version number and our customers appreciate > that. Now, if OpenBSD were to release a version 10 tomorrow we > might have a problem." > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > Perhaps the last sentence explains why Red Hat decided to jump to 9.0. -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
