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Solaris + OS X
While I run Windows XP on my laptop, my friends know that I am a big big fan and advocate of FreeBSD, Sun Solaris and Apple Mac OS X. Keep these facts.
Beside my faith and believe in Sun, now I am afraid they are going the wrong way. In fact, Sun without Bill Joy is like Apple without Steve Jobs. People in sun are officially starting to act weird:
As you know, we recently unveiled Solaris 10, the world’s highest volume and most secure UNIX, running on all volume platforms - SPARC and both AMD and Intel x64. We’ve seen a huge rush of downloads (topping 1.5 million licenses) - and as you continue exploring the x64 platform as an alternative for your users, the opportunity to join forces on an operating system seems readily at hand.
So I’d like to personally invite you to adopt Solaris 10 as the underpinning of the next generation Mac. We both respect Unix, both respect innovation, and both clearly see volume opportunities in extending choice to developers. We’d love to work together.
I am afraid he’s not sure what he is talking about. Solaris is not mature enough for serious jobs on x86. And what would motivate apple to discard its own BSD-like licensed platform (which because of derivation from FreeBSD project, is already mature and stable on x86 platform) and switch to Solaris?
Maybe it was a free try to promote Solaris. But instead of chattering and issuing free advise to people, I’d suggest them to work on better products and realize the promises they’ve made about ZFS and their other unfinished projects.
AirPort Express
I am not a Mac enthusiast, but I love their innovations.
And the latest innovation from Apple is Airport Express.
It really took a while to find out what it really is. A tiny device that plugs directly into the power plug, which has an Ethernet (10/100Base-T) port, a USB port and, a Headphones jack, and built-in 802.11g transceiver. All for $129.
It supports OS X and WinXP natievly. So we should expect a new open source project (OpenAirPortExpress.SourceForge.Net maybe) with some crappy Linux drivers soon. 
