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A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernel

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sibling-rivalry dept.

v1x writes "An article at OpenSolaris examines three of the basic subsystems of the kernel and compares implementation between Solaris 10, Linux 2.6, and FreeBSD 5.3. From the article: 'Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux are obviously benefiting from each other. With Solaris going open source, I expect this to continue at a faster rate. My impression is that change is most rapid in Linux. The benefits of this are that new technology has a quick incorporation into the system.'"

2 of 318 comments (clear)

  1. Re:When will OSI licenses really start working? by The+Cisco+Kid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You leave /usr/ports/ alone - it blows anything ive ever seen in linux away (nothing against linux, but I would love to have a linux system with something comparable to ports, both in the way it works as well as the completeness)

  2. How much of Solaris has gone open source? by cprice · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Its been what, 2-3 years since the open-source solaris announcement came out? How much has been open sourced? AFAIK, all the have opened sourced is DTrace (a very cool tool/framework), but nay else. Lets see them open up the kernel internals like the thread model... I am skeptical that Sun will ever release their Kernel as open source as I recently had Sun reps argue with me that Linux/FreeBSD is 'single threaded' and cant scale across more than one cpu, to which I replied 'Bovine Scatlogical Pathology'. Sun is a hardware company people, and keeping Solaris uber-elite and closed source is their only way to sell expensive hardware.