Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com>]

I think it is getting better, although on my office PC, the driver for
the on-board sound system does not work properly, for example. For
graphic cards, I think you can use any XFree86 driver. Also, the
latest version of Solaris promises to be compatible with Linux on a
system-call level. A list of supported hardware can be found at

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl

Also note that Solaris is now open source, but make sure to read the
license....


>>>>> "SW" == Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

    SW> Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com> writes:
    GB> Simon Wright wrote:
    >> >> It certainly seems to be true that, no matter how daft you or I might
    >> >> think it, management would prefer to use Windows to develop on.

    >> You can run Solaris on almost any Intel box as well....

    SW> It's the cost of the outsourced support (often more per year than the
    SW> cost of the hardware), and the management effort that would be
    SW> necessary to beat the outsource supplier down to a sensible price per
    SW> seat.

    SW> You and I know that Solaris is going to be less trouble to support,
    SW> but lack of familiarity breeds fear.

    SW> Last time I looked, Solaris was rather picky about the hardware it ran
    SW> on .. has that changed?

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