[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

[Koyote]

"Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> writes:

> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Michael Schiller wrote:
> 
> > As somebody else already mentioned, I would like to see Sun & Apple get
> > together. I think the 2 companies would complement each other rather
> > well. Of course the other thing I would like to see, but probably
> > wouldn't happen would be for them to then replace BSD with Solaris as
> > the underlying OS in OSX, that would be a kick-ass OS, the stability of
> > Solaris with the ease of use of OSX!
> 
> Actually, it's not really BSD underneath.  It's OpenStep.  They just
> borrowed some of the FreeBSD userland binaries.  Removing the OpenStep
> from OS X and replacing it with Solaris would be impossible, if they
> wanted to keep any semblance of compatibility between Solaris and OS X.

Hrm. I seem to recall some openstep and nextstep support for
solaris.......



> 
> Now, if they'd find some way to replace the Mach kernel with SunOS and
> make the IORegistry a skin over /devices, that would be exceedingly
> tasty.  You'd have SunOS, with a pretty face, and back too its roots
> with BSDish userland binaries.  The only sore spots would be the OpenStep
> way of doing things and NetInfo.

I like the solaris binaries, really. I usually run solaris and
windowmaker in a fairly classic config and it seems to be fine to
me. Except the stuff in /usr/dt/bin always looks ugly :/

-C