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The Return Of Solaris 9 For x86

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the which-end-of-the-bandwagon-suits-you dept.

The Pi-Guy writes: "Hoping that I won't screw up again about Solaris 9 on x86 again, this time I'm sure I got it right... eWeek is covering that indeed, Sun will be shipping Solaris 9 for x86 after all!!! Also in that article, they note that Sun is shipping a x86 based server, which will ship the 26th. It will be running a Sun Linux distro... Many surprises from Sun today!!"

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  1. will the JVM be as fast under Solaris as Linux by jamesk · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Or as robust ;)

  2. Stability, maturity, consistency... by ZxCv · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    For the Linux crowd, the Solaris OS has a level of stability, maturity, and unified feel that Linux simply lacks. It's a one-company vision of how a Unix OS should work and, while I don't always agree with them, the consistency is refreshing.

    Change a few words in this..and..

    For the Linux crowd, FreeBSD has a level of stability, maturity, and unified feel that Linux simply lacks. It's a single vision of how a Unix OS should work and, while I don't always agree with them, the consistency is refreshing.

    Sounds exactly like why I stick to FreeBSD these days rather than Linux, unless I'm working on a desktop machine. I dealt with Solaris machines for a couple years (on both Solaris 7 & 8), and while they did their jobs just fine, admin'ing those boxes was definitely not as well thought-out and easy as admin'ing any of the FreeBSD boxes--and the Solaris machines provided no additional benefit in uptime or stability, while costing about $2k more a piece at the time. Rightfully so, of the couple hundred or so machines I've been tasked with setting up in the couple years since, not a single one has been a Sun box.

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