Open Solaris on see, mida Ubutntu tahaks olla kui suureks saab?

Open Source UNIX x86-compatible operating systems are nothing new. The various BSD OSes have had a loyal but niche following for years. FreeBSD , NetBSD and OpenBSD are the major derivatives. Not surprisingly, ideological differences and personality clashes between FreeBSD’s founders and contributors have created fractionalization and compatibility issues between the various BSDs, which has confused the landscape and limited BSD’s adoption. To further complicate matters, Apple has even released the source code of Mac OS X’s BSD-based UNIX core as the “Darwin” project and an installable distribution for Darwin even exists as GNU Darwin.

Despite a loyal following among research academia, vertical systems integrators and some Internet service providers, the BSDs never really caught with end users like Linux has. To further add to BSD’s woe, no BSD-based OS has made significant inroads into the enterprise - only the System V based UNIX OSes, such as Sun’s Solaris, IBM’s AIX and HP’s HP-UX now occupy that coveted mid-range and high-end space. Before pursuing its litigious path of self-destruction, even SCO’s UnixWare and OpenServer System V OSes for x86 had some decent vertical penetration into the retail industry. And before they abandoned their native IRIX System V platform for Linux, SGI also had a large toehold in the supercomputing and CGI industry.