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A Comprehensive Look at Solaris 10

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the kicking-the-tires dept.

sebFlyte writes "After linking to Mad Penguin's first look all seems to have gone quiet on the Solaris 10 front. ZDNet now has a comprehensive review up, and are cautiously positive about the OS, though, as they say: 'as an alternative to Linux, it doesn't yet deliver.'"

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  1. Lo, How The Mighty Have Fallen... by spoonboy42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seems like just yesterday people were saying Linux doesn't yet deliver as an alternative to Solaris.

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    1. Re:Lo, How The Mighty Have Fallen... by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Interesting
      I was just thinking that. Other deja-vu provoking lines:

      We...experienced lots of basic compatibility problems. These ranged from a clash between the install program and the CD-ROM drive to -- where we could get that to work -- a failure to recognise the network or storage adapters being used.

      Sun has a long way to go before it can claim to provide the same wide platform support that's available from the top Linux vendors.

      Man, remember when everyone was saying that about Linux?

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  2. How times change... by ender- · · Score: 5, Interesting

    as an alternative to Linux, it doesn't yet deliver.

    Am I the only person who finds this statement insanely hilarious? Maybe it's just my time spent as a sysadmin, but it seems to me that just a few/several years ago Linux was said to not deliver as an alternative to Solaris. A statement like that has got to really sting Sun.

    My, my how times change.

    Ender-

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    1. Re:How times change... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Ummm.... I never considered Solaris and Linux to be in the same league. I mean, Solaris is what I run on big iron, Linux is something I run on little x86 servers. I know that each OS can run perfectly fine on the other, but really, Solaris with less than 4 processors has never been any good. And Linux with 4 or more is getting better, but the entire software base is lacking there.

      Things you expect from Solaris software :
      - Lots of threads (good for multiple CPU's)
      - Built-in clustering options, use of message passing
      - Efficient use of large memory
      - A small collection of extensively developed applications that communicate with one another

      Things you expect from Linux software :
      - Optimization for one or two processors
      - Tight loops at the GUI event handler
      - A large selection of non-integrated packages

      They serve different markets. You can spend a lot more time setting up your servers and such, but Solaris is a lot simpler overall.

    2. Re:How times change... by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I find it hilarious for other reasons , Having worked as a sys-admin on solaris and linux I know that each system has their strengths.
      Such a blanket statment is totaly useless and the review was entierly to vauge .
      I am rather dispondant that things like this pass for journalism nowadays .
      It is grand that Linux is getting such recognition , but i would rather have it from a fair review as opposed to this

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  3. Unrealistic to compare by inflex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Solaris is not meant to be a used in the same vein as Linux.

    I'd like to see linux /realistically/ scale in the same fasion as Solaris does on things like the E25K's and other large iron systems.

    No doubt solaris scores as "badly" in some areas relative to linux as linux does relative to solaris in others.

    Nothing to see here, usual hippie fanatics at work.