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Solaris 11 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

angry tapir writes "Oracle has updated its Unix-based operating system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly with other Oracle products. While not as widely known for its cloud software, Oracle has been marketing Solaris as a cloud-friendly OS. In Oracle's architecture, users can set up different partitions, called Zones, inside a Solaris implementation, which would allow different workloads to run simultaneously, each within their own environment, on a single machine."

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  1. What Sun built in goodwill, Oracle destroys. by sethstorm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given how much they've done negatively to OpenSolaris (taking it from developer-friendly to "we don't care how many people get compromised, we're not going to hand out security updates without a large-fee contract", Oracle's made it worse than AIX.

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  2. still no ZFS bp rewrite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    10 years and counting and still no ZFS bp rewrite implemented. For those that care, this presumably is required to implement such uninteresting things as vdev removal and defragmentation. And please, no defrag-denialists here... ZFS fragments like a cheap suit dipped into liquid nitrogen.

  3. Re:Solaris is good as dead by afabbro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How exactly has Oracle "messed up" VirtualBox?

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  4. Re:Cloud hosting by SomePgmr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nonsense. I've been watching people on slashdot trash things they know absolutely nothing about for something near a decade.

    I come here for the ones that can call them out on it. :)

  5. Re:Cloud hosting by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Really than why don't they hate linux? After all as a linux admin my life was made hard by linux much more often than windows or Solaris

    Some of us do. And if you think Linux makes your life difficult as an admin, spare a thought for developers. Poor standards compliance, convoluted APIs (e.g. no unified kernel event mechanism, unlike *BSD and Solaris), a massive overdose of NIH (e.g. OSS, which works everywhere and is a simple userland API, vs ALSA which only works on Linux and is a mess), and a deprecation-happy team that seems to delight in deprecating APIs as soon as you've started using them.

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