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OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD?

Posted by Soulskill on from the ten-paces-and-turn dept.

Norsefire writes "I am in quite a predicament. I decided a while back to branch out and use a new operating system (currently running Debian). After a bit of searching (trying Gentoo, Gobo and Arch along the way), I decided to use something that isn't Linux. Long story short: I narrowed the choices down to OpenSolaris and FreeBSD, but now I'm stuck. OpenSolaris is commercially backed by Sun, has nice enterprise-y tools in the default install, and best of all, a mature implementation of ZFS. FreeBSD is backed by a foundation, has a minimal default install and a rather new (but recently improved in the 8.0 release) implementation of ZFS, however it offers the Ports Collection (I quite like the performance boost due to compiling from source, no matter how small it might be) and a bigger community than OpenSolaris. That is just a minimal mention of the differences. I would be interested to see what the Slashdot community thinks of these two operating systems."

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  1. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those are commie Operating Systems you have there. Get some Windows 7 and be a good patriot.

    Just think about what you're saying in the future.

  2. Re:Go the whole hog... by jasonq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hell I could get us to Mars, if I had the budget to hire the right people.

  3. I have a PROBLEM. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am in quite a predicament. My boss hired me because I bullshitted my way through an interview, but really I don't know shit from shinola when it comes to servers and operating systems and such. I can play WoW... HELP ME PLEASE.

    1. Re:I have a PROBLEM. by sortius_nod · · Score: 3, Funny

      Use your current job to go and get a job at rackspace or the like, you'll be fine.

    2. Re:I have a PROBLEM. by jwt3k · · Score: 2, Funny

      http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/TxLawdog2/art-of-survival.jpg?o=2 Be the fox.

  4. Use CP/M by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since you're not telling us what you're actually planning to do with the OS, might as well advice some random OS based on no reason whatsoever.

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    1. Re:Use CP/M by ignavus · · Score: 3, Funny

      Since you're not telling us what you're actually planning to do with the OS, might as well advice some random OS based on no reason whatsoever.

      I was favouring OS/360 myself. He sounded like he wanted a challenge.

      And Multics would have been my second choice.

      CP/M is a great idea, but too simple. Something BIG and totally irrelevant is called for here.

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  5. Re:Why? by jhoegl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sun.... didnt they get bought by a horrible DB company that may or may not ditch the OS? Sweet...

  6. Re:Go the whole hog... by udippel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wish someone would come up with something new, that combines all good ideas of all OSes into a new basic architecture, after understanding that, creates some new, modern paradigms, and then re-builds all those good ideas from scratch into those new main paradigms.

    It exists!
    Just visit your favourite computer shop and get yourself this shiny new W7-DVD.

  7. Re:Only copyleft is "commie", BSD isn't. by EdIII · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's probably not indented for people who want a complete GNU system

    I didn't realize the people who wanted a complete GNU system needed different levels of indentation in the source code! :)

  8. Re:FreeBSD by godrik · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't believe that. FreeBSD is so good you'll lose all your friends!! I'd like to try it, but I already lost them trying Hurd....