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Interview With Solaris Kernel Engineer Andy Tucker
Gentu writes "OSNews hosts an interview with Andy Tucker, Distinguished Engineer of the Solaris kernel. They talk about the internals of Solaris, the competition and how the OS compares to Linux/BSD/other-Unix and also about its future."
Solaris is dying, just like BSD that is why no one is posting on this thread, and I got first post
An example is the two-level thread scheduling model, where thread scheduling happens both at user level and in the kernel. Although this approach had some theoretical advantages in terms of thread creation and context switch time, it turned out to be enormously complicated, particularly when dealing with traditional Unix process semantics like signals.
I'm glad to see that someone also thinks this was a bitch to work with.
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No mention of BeOS... she must be ill.
I couldnt completely eliminate FreeBSD or Linux from my OS options while installing servers, each had strengths I needed.. until I ran into Solaris.
There are cards that have drivers for Solaris but not Linux or FreeBSD. There are tools and functionality in Solaris that I couldnt find in the others and had to use Solaris for some things.. such as SNAT between an ethernet and tokenring card. All linux kernels crashed after a while of doing this and so did FreeBSD with its lone Olicom driver support. Solaris held on. In other places, FreeBSDs performance just beat Solaris out of the water (no Java thrashing the harddisk like its Baghdad).
I can understand why theres little enthuisiasm for Solaris around the slashdot circles, its not free and it makes money for someone else. But just as we laugh at Microsofts lack of quality, we must laud a good product. Theres no denying the graphics capabilities of OSX and Irix, network and system admin tools of Solaris, huge features and ports of Linux and rock hard stability and efficiency of BSD.
Solaris especially makes a great package with a 64-bit Sparc CPU like the cheap used Ultra 5 systems. They still need to work on the scheduler, IDE speeds and hopefully theyll put virtual terminals back in Solaris10.
I havent used AIX, HPUX or OS/360/390/400. Does anyone know of their strengths and edge over other OSes?
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
Did they, too, stole code from SCO?
Nobody is able to do as well as us, so they must have stolen the code
Somebody had to build on the paranoia.
Do the articles have to be flamebait, in order for people to post replies?
This was actually a very good interview. For example, the Mad Hatter desktop might be out before the year is over (good stuff: Linux, GNOME, plus Microsoft filesharing and Exhange interoperability). Sun is one company who could sell something like this, because they are a very well known brandname along with an ability to offer big support. Sun is also one company who has an interest in promoting Solaris, Linux, and Windows interoperability without keeping an ace in their sleeve. If they are successful, nearly everyone benefits.
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An important aspect of Linus' management is his anti-roadmap approach to leadership. I wonder how this compares to Solaris?
why not here.
...then, actually, who is the Cathedral, and who is the Bazaar?
If you see a bazaar as a place where everyone sells his own small product, and a cathedral as a result of often loosely planned and re-planned work of many ages and many men, with many different skills involved...
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