Sun is going open source with their popular operating system Solaris at http://www.opensolaris.org/. I applaud them for this decision, and hope the issue of limited driver availability for Solaris on x86 platforms will be addressed with alacrity by the open source community. Yes, I have high hopes, but that's just what they are: hopes.
There are a lot of drivers that need to be written to make the Solaris OS run on many different home/x86 computers. That's a big job. I doubt the OSC will keep up for Suns benefit and, ultimately, profit. But we'll see.
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