What's Coming in Solaris 10

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Posted by michael on Tuesday November 25, 2003 @07:49AM from the lunch-getting-eaten-by-linux dept.

raptor21 writes "Ace's hardware has an article with feature list of technologies in Solaris 10 or whatever it is called today. Interesting stuff like DTrace, FireEngine, military grade security and a new filesystem called ZFS, Zetabyte File System."

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Re:Pay through nose by glwtta · 2003-11-25 07:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

hmm... possibly because this article is entirely about features that you will not find on kernel.org?

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ARRRRGGHHHH!!!! by pr0ntab · 2003-11-25 08:53 · Score: 4, Insightful

How many times does someone have to clarify the point that the linux kernel's TCP/IP stack has been rewritten AT LEAST once since it had BSD roots?

And we are to ignore VxWorks as well? It's stack is specially designed for embedded workloads.

Then there's Cisco's OS. Oh, and Windows NT 5.x stack is completely different than the BSD one. It's just the sockets interface that's grafted on top of it that carried some Berkerley copyrights.

Now that I think about it, it seems that only operating systems using the BSD TCP/IP stack are the BSDs themselves! (MacOSX included)

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Re:Pay through nose by dubious9 · 2003-11-25 08:54 · Score: 4, Insightful

Who marked this as a troll? What's trollish about it? Solaris is the industry standard for high performance unix. I've worked on solaris, AIX,HP-UX, and Redhat, and I'd say that solaris gives me the least headaches. Any why did grandparent even mention support? No support in linux, aside from mailing lists. One can pay for support, a la Redhat, but that debunks that argument now doesn't it.

Sun makes money off of selling sun systems and support. I've found that they are as responsive as asking questions on a open source mailing list, without the RTFM comments. They make programming on their platform a really good experience. The documentation on their website is light years from microsoft and (though it is very dear to me) the linux documentation project.

As somebody else said, use the right tool for the job. I like linux alot. I run it at home. But it is not the catch-all solve-all operating system. I has its uses and weaknesses, but the reasons why to use solaris over linux are very numberous.

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