I have this hunch that once Sun can licence their Solaris Kernel
in a compatible way there will evolve a Debian GNU/Solaris
distribution. I also think that Sun may have enough of a clue
to merge their OpenSolaris into Debian GNU/Solaris as a nice
way to let someone else to the heavy work of packaging it all up,
and the Sun can just act as the upstream providers of the kernel
and a few bits and bobs and at the same time act as a downstream
packager of official Sun Solaris not unlike ubuntu today.
- Sun have give Debian kit recently.
- No body owns Debian, so Sun can't have the rug ripped from
under neath them.
- Debian's deb/apt system is second to none, it's free so Sun
may as well use it.
- Debian has a very good reputation and vast package selection.
- Debian already supports multiple kernels: BSD; Hurd and Linux.
- Ubuntu et al. all seem to be doing well by building on
top of Debian.
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