Solaris Might Become LSB-compliant

lvv writes "Register: according to Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, Solaris - one of the most proprietary Unixes, might become LSB compliant OpenSolaris. Also some info about future of Solaris desktop (Gnome)."

Darn...

[Anonymous Coward]

For a second there I thought it said "LSD-compliant"... how cool would it have been to be able to hear the video output and see the audio output?

wait a minite

[JamesCronus]

hang on, solaris, becomeing linux compliant???? eh???????? i thought solaris, being UNIX was posix complient, and so didnt need to be LSB compliant. hang on wont this turn solaris into a linux clone, but linux is a unix clone................ i'm gonna go and lie down, i think i'm dreaming

O.K.!

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I think that this will finally earn them the right to increment a Major Version Number!

In related news...

[steveadept]

In another fantastic display of pandering, Schwartz noted, "OpenSolaris will be based on UnitedLinux, because that's the direction everybody's going, isn't it? Isn't it?"

Re:O.K.!

[Faggot]

Well, that and the fact that they've run out of decimal space for SunOS 5.X. And suits don't speak hex.

you all realise

[the_2nd_coming]

that if they become LSB compliant, all Solaris apps will run almost out of the box on Linux.....is sun realy that arogant that they think they can keep farenough ahead of Linux in OS technology that customers will always pick Sun over a dell running Linux.

I mean the only way they can keep there apps on there systems is if they make developers agree not to port there programs to another Processosr platform.

No, I think that was BSD

[cyber_rigger]

"2 things to come out of Berkley: Unix and LSD"

Big Endian or Litle Endian?

[Snork Asaurus]

Solaris Might Become LSB-compliant

Is Solaris already compliant with all the other bits?

I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

What does this have to do with least significant bits?

Which LSB?

[RomSteady]

At first glance, I thought this was an article about it moving from MSB (most-significant byte order) to LSB (least-significant byte order). While it only took me a second to figure out that it meant Linux Standards Board, it just goes to show that the biggest problem in computer science isn't a lack of standards...it's a lack of unique TLA's (three-letter acronyms).

Least significant bit

[DahGhostfacedFiddlah]

Until now, Solaris has been based on MSB (Most Significant Bit) technology, which made it incompatible with many PC devices. For instance, you couldn't network a Solaris and PC machine without going to the TCP/IP level, because what would leave the Solaris machine as

11100000 00000111

woule return as

00000111 11100000

As you can tell, this was a major PITA. I, for one, am glad that I'll be able to use all my favourite hardware on my Solaris machine now.

LSB != LSD

[AskedRelic]

Heh, anyone else see LSD when they first looked?