Re: [cobalt-users] Re: No Solaris Petition

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Arsalan Mahmud wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   The biggest difference between Solaris and Linux is that you will get a
> whole lot of software free of charge for Linux which you would have to pay
> thousands of dollars other wise. Also Linux is easier to customize then
> Solaris. Consider this you won't be able to use most of the "add-ons" that
> are out there for cobalt because most probably Sun won't release the source
> code .

True.  But Sun seem to believe the Cobalt marketing - that it's an appliance
and as such we don't care what OS it's running.  I don't know if there's any
way of finding out, but how many Cobalt boxes have *never* had a command line
session run on them?  And how many have had a shell run from necessity?

-- 
Dom.