I see the whole thing as Sun's trying to kick start the device support (which is totally lacking on the x86 side), but maintaining some culpability for the product they sell. I've been in this business a long time, and been on the short and long side of "suport contracts". IT's a total PITA when you've got a problem and can't get it resolved because of some support issue (like support being cut for budget purposes) and a blessing when they can assign 3 engineers to go fix that problem. The issue about the source changes and who controls them is who own's the changes. If some programmer changes a driver in your version of Linux, and you're running a production system, who ya gonna sue or who's feet will you hold to the fire? You run Solaris and got support, Sun has ownership of the changes. Plain and simple.
You complain about running a version of Solaris that is 2 years old. What is that in the Linux world? like redhat 4.2? Some comparison. You starting a mindcraft study???;-) And your logon problems could be the result of anything, including poor network configuration (or nisplus;0) How about trying Solaris 7 release 5/99 or 8/99. There is a substantial performance difference between the release you're complaining about, and current stuff. Sort of like where RH6.0 and SuSE 6.2 are at now. Personally, I wouldn't even bother patching a 2.6 system unless it had to stay that way. I would load up that $10 copy of Solaris 7 8/99, spend $99 bucks for XIG's server for a G400 board for a Intel system. Even that little Ultra5 should rock with Solaris 7. Linux rocks cause it has all those cool tools like KDE, Gnome, E, etc. I'm in the process of building all that stuff on Solaris so I can match my Linux boxen.
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I see the whole thing as Sun's trying to kick start the device support (which is totally lacking on the x86 side), but maintaining some culpability for the product they sell. I've been in this business a long time, and been on the short and long side of "suport contracts". IT's a total PITA when you've got a problem and can't get it resolved because of some support issue (like support being cut for budget purposes) and a blessing when they can assign 3 engineers to go fix that problem. The issue about the source changes and who controls them is who own's the changes. If some programmer changes a driver in your version of Linux, and you're running a production system, who ya gonna sue or who's feet will you hold to the fire? You run Solaris and got support, Sun has ownership of the changes. Plain and simple.
You complain about running a version of Solaris that is 2 years old. What is that in the Linux world? like redhat 4.2? Some comparison. You starting a mindcraft study??? ;-) And your logon problems could be the result of anything, including poor network configuration (or nisplus ;0) How about trying Solaris 7 release 5/99 or 8/99. There is a substantial performance difference between the release you're complaining about, and current stuff. Sort of like where RH6.0 and SuSE 6.2 are at now. Personally, I wouldn't even bother patching a 2.6 system unless it had to stay that way. I would load up that $10 copy of Solaris 7 8/99, spend $99 bucks for XIG's server for a G400 board for a Intel system. Even that little Ultra5 should rock with Solaris 7. Linux rocks cause it has all those cool tools like KDE, Gnome, E, etc. I'm in the process of building all that stuff on Solaris so I can match my Linux boxen.