OpenSolaris has DTrace, ZFS, Zones........While Linux' hardware support is wider than that of OpenSolaris, the latter does benefit from having a static driver interface. Where in Linux hardware support might actually break as time goes by, 10 year old Solaris drivers will still work today. There's also a Device Detection Tool which will tell you if your hardware is compatible with OpenSolaris.
However the number of applications to choose form is quite limited compared to what Linux distributions generally have to offer.
DTrace is really cool you can learn more about it here
http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html
Cheers -
Jeffery
Don't most slashdotters smoke the OS on the machine they buy anyways and load a clean version of whatever flavor you enjoi without all the bs vendorware??
Why are their so many comments on this?
I couldn't agree more "cloud computing/hosting/whatever is a vague term used like any other buzz term. I just see it as a platform where the resources should be allocated automatically and the underneath system takes care of having those available.
The same failure points are there. You're just putting the trust and management to someone else. Even if they do have backup plans and certain levels of redundancy, it can always fail. Cloud computing isn't something magical.
“Similarly datacenters fail, get disconnected, overheat, flood, burn to the ground and so on, but these events should not cause any more than a minor interruption for end users. Otherwise how are they different from ‘legacy’ web applications?”
That's because they aren't. The system is just managed by someone else, and its managed for thousands of people at the same time so its cheaper. Kind of like what Akamai has been doing for long with their content delivery network - it's cheaper for the providers because they dont have to build the infrastructure themself, and its cheaper for Akamai because they do it for so many clients.
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I certainly won't be running out to get one but its way sexier than anything MS could ever dream up - Its kind of lame that it runs iPhone OS instead of some stripped down OS-X..probably the future versions of it will be pretty cool - If Gates is talking about Linux on Netbooks then yeah that is pretty cool = )
--Jeffery
Oh we have free sodas too - but it is up to the individual manager if he orders them or not its not company wide - we have some heavy Dew drinkers on our team = )
We have Starbucks coffee (the ground kind) at my work Verona and Breakfast blend - although our capex and opex expenses were like 40mm last year so I don't think they are too worried about coffee
Houston has WAY more of an thriving IT market than Dallas considering most every oil company there is has a headquarters here..Dallas has EDS..TI and a few others but there is no comparison
Actually the Federal Prisons are broken up into lower and higher security levels - Leavenworth is a maxmimum security lockup - where on the other hand lower security camps like Eglin house mostly white collar criminals and non-violent offenders - I think some people always tend to think of the camps when in fact yes there are very tough federal lockups too IE Atlanta Penitentiary
Actually my main machine runs Opensolaris
bash-3.2# uname -a
SunOS probot 5.11 snv_83 i86pc i386 i86pc
Yes I am fam with the mach kernel and BSD - what does that have to do with Microsoft sucking?
Geez since when was slashdot overrun with windows dorks -
Sun didn't invent anything? Are you on crank? co-founder Bill Joy contributed the vi editor, the C shell, and significant work on the TCP/IP stack to the BSD Unix OS. Sun also brought us (for better or worse) Java - and a little something called NIS - not to mention the SPARC - you may now resume playing your PS3 in your moms basement - cheers
oh and PS I don't give a crap about linux. \m/
Hey there Gibson. Microsoft owes its existence to buying other peoples ideas - point and click = xerox dos =...well you know all this..Sun was the first to bring Blackbox out and there is a market for it. You may work for footlocker or something but for big oil who has an interest in having dc's in remote locales with little or no onsite admins its a huge deal. Enjoy hammering on your vista box and watching the "big game".
They have probably already sold 10,000 of them to people in India - and yes its an obvious scan
the website looks like it was put together by a 12 year old.
Not to mention THEY DON'T HAVE PHONES?????
LOL
Okay I am assuming it covers other flavors than that?? Most companies either use Red Hat or SUSE - I mean Ian Murdock works for Sun now...Debian was a pretty lame distro anyways IMHO (bring on the flames) I will probably get a copy of it anyways - \m/ dark hails \m/
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OpenSolaris has DTrace, ZFS, Zones........While Linux' hardware support is wider than that of OpenSolaris, the latter does benefit from having a static driver interface. Where in Linux hardware support might actually break as time goes by, 10 year old Solaris drivers will still work today. There's also a Device Detection Tool which will tell you if your hardware is compatible with OpenSolaris. However the number of applications to choose form is quite limited compared to what Linux distributions generally have to offer. DTrace is really cool you can learn more about it here http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html Cheers - Jeffery
Don't most slashdotters smoke the OS on the machine they buy anyways and load a clean version of whatever flavor you enjoi without all the bs vendorware?? Why are their so many comments on this?
Just LMFAO - no kidding even with the hot chicks those commercials are annoying as hell -
I couldn't agree more "cloud computing/hosting/whatever is a vague term used like any other buzz term. I just see it as a platform where the resources should be allocated automatically and the underneath system takes care of having those available. The same failure points are there. You're just putting the trust and management to someone else. Even if they do have backup plans and certain levels of redundancy, it can always fail. Cloud computing isn't something magical. “Similarly datacenters fail, get disconnected, overheat, flood, burn to the ground and so on, but these events should not cause any more than a minor interruption for end users. Otherwise how are they different from ‘legacy’ web applications?” That's because they aren't. The system is just managed by someone else, and its managed for thousands of people at the same time so its cheaper. Kind of like what Akamai has been doing for long with their content delivery network - it's cheaper for the providers because they dont have to build the infrastructure themself, and its cheaper for Akamai because they do it for so many clients. "
Is this edition 500+ pages too? the last one is like a boat anchor.............
I certainly won't be running out to get one but its way sexier than anything MS could ever dream up - Its kind of lame that it runs iPhone OS instead of some stripped down OS-X..probably the future versions of it will be pretty cool - If Gates is talking about Linux on Netbooks then yeah that is pretty cool = ) --Jeffery
Why would anyone want this when you can pay three times more for Apple TV = )
Oh we have free sodas too - but it is up to the individual manager if he orders them or not its not company wide - we have some heavy Dew drinkers on our team = )
We have Starbucks coffee (the ground kind) at my work Verona and Breakfast blend - although our capex and opex expenses were like 40mm last year so I don't think they are too worried about coffee
That's "rich boy" talk
This should be huge in the bible belt - words are just words - it's really FUCKING dumb = )
A Saturn car??? they still make those?? = )
70 bucks a YEAR??? So you are going to buy another server which will cost at least a grand to save 70 dollars a year? what am I missing here?
Hmm when I first read that phrase I was thinking something else LOL
Houston has WAY more of an thriving IT market than Dallas considering most every oil company there is has a headquarters here..Dallas has EDS..TI and a few others but there is no comparison
Actually the Federal Prisons are broken up into lower and higher security levels - Leavenworth is a maxmimum security lockup - where on the other hand lower security camps like Eglin house mostly white collar criminals and non-violent offenders - I think some people always tend to think of the camps when in fact yes there are very tough federal lockups too IE Atlanta Penitentiary
Good points
Actually my main machine runs Opensolaris bash-3.2# uname -a SunOS probot 5.11 snv_83 i86pc i386 i86pc Yes I am fam with the mach kernel and BSD - what does that have to do with Microsoft sucking? Geez since when was slashdot overrun with windows dorks -
Sun didn't invent anything? Are you on crank? co-founder Bill Joy contributed the vi editor, the C shell, and significant work on the TCP/IP stack to the BSD Unix OS. Sun also brought us (for better or worse) Java - and a little something called NIS - not to mention the SPARC - you may now resume playing your PS3 in your moms basement - cheers oh and PS I don't give a crap about linux. \m/
Hey there Gibson. Microsoft owes its existence to buying other peoples ideas - point and click = xerox dos = ...well you know all this..Sun was the first to bring Blackbox out and there is a market for it. You may work for footlocker or something but for big oil who has an interest in having dc's in remote locales with little or no onsite admins its a huge deal. Enjoy hammering on your vista box and watching the "big game".
So weather its aping OSX or ripping off the blackbox idea from Sun these motards have zero originality - MS sucks
They have probably already sold 10,000 of them to people in India - and yes its an obvious scan the website looks like it was put together by a 12 year old. Not to mention THEY DON'T HAVE PHONES????? LOL
Okay I am assuming it covers other flavors than that?? Most companies either use Red Hat or SUSE - I mean Ian Murdock works for Sun now...Debian was a pretty lame distro anyways IMHO (bring on the flames) I will probably get a copy of it anyways - \m/ dark hails \m/
Pretty cool I will have to dial this in on my mini! \m/
I thought people smart enough to be in college used macs? = )