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Sun Releases Solaris 9 for Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sunshine-lollipops-and-rainbows dept.

nairnr writes "Sun has announced that it is releasing Solaris 9 for Intel. Any takers? According to Sun, it extends the 'enterprise class OS to the X86 market'. How nice of them. Non-commercial usage is available at no charge, while commercial pricing starts at US $99; attractive OEM pricing is also available. Source code for Solaris will now be available. It seems they are after Microsoft, not Linux. More Power to them."

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  1. DL is commencing by andyring · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I forked over 20 clams and am downloading it now. Looking forward to getting home and giving it a try. Lets see if I can go with a triple-boot box, RedHat 8, Win2k and Solaris.....

  2. Why use Solaris? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I really don't understand wht anyone would want to use Solaris when there are better alternatives such as Linux, *BSD, ...

    I work at an ISP as system engineer and I must say Linux beats Solaris in almost every area.
    - the filesystem in Solaris is so slooooow, if you have more than 1000 files in a directory, simply forget it!
    - tcp/ip stack sucks too: connection establishment takes much more time than in Linux
    - impossible to make Solaris switch threads between several cpus!
    - so many GNU tools missing

    In every area where we moved from Solaris to Linux, we offered a better service to our customers, be it mail, news, web, mysql, ... and ten times cheaper!

    We also compared Solaris to Debian sparc and saw a large performance increase.

    Sun have some interesting (very expensive) pieces of hardware such as the T3, the SunFire, ... but Solaris really plain sucks for most apps imho

    I want to believe Solaris must be better at something... it makes good printing server!

    Please, someone show me a real-life benchmark where Solaris beats Linux!