Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris?

Solaris is far away from being a decent desktop class OS.

The hardware support just isn't there.

The fact that Solaris is adopting the GPLv3 won't help improve the situtation either. It will just provent hardware vendors from making proprietary drivers for Solaris.

It takes alot of effort and/or a great deal of preasure from a measurable userbase to either convince hardware vendors to release hardware specs or reverse engineer propretary drivers.

Its taken years for Linux to get the driver support it has today and it's still "iffy" for some folks.

It doesn't really mean that.

The GPLv3 and the GPLv2 are somewhat incompatable from what I've read and cannot be linked together.

Linux is getting a user space implementation of ZFS, which is based on the LGPL-licensed FUSE.

FUSE works very good though. I'm able to get NTFS-3g installed and my windows drive mounted with a few mouse click or a simple mount command in the terminal. The read & write performance is fantastic too.

I'm sure the GNU people are working on this to make it work. The GNU project doesn't want to ignite massive forking efforts.

Their Hurd kernel is at least another decade away from being two decades behind.

Linux couldn't become GPLv3 even if Linus wanted.

Doing so would require the consent of all the developers who contributed code to Linux since it's inception.

But as you could probably imagine, some of the contributors are deceased now.

My guess is the LGPLv3 provisions in GLibc will make it possible.

Stand-alone userland software, such as BASH, will continue to be fine since they dont link with the GPLv2 kernel per say.