I hope you recognize that you haven't made a single argument about Solaris's superiority to Linux in terms of performance and security. You're citing philosophy garbage, which when I'm running servers at work, that's irrelevant and quite funny.
I've stated in previous posts that Sun should concentrate on x86 support if they wish to compete with Linux. Nowhere am I insinuating that Solaris has better hardware support for x86 than Linux does.
Solaris 10 installs have been slightly successful on laptops. As for the rest of the consumer devices you stated, I'm happy with the way they are, and hope Linux doesn't infect them.
This article is about Solaris, not Sun hardware. Don't make generalizations - "Solaris only runs on Sun hardware." Solaris runs on x86, and I've very impressed with the performance of Solaris 9 on my Xeons.
If Sun would concentrate on increasing the x86 hardware support for Solaris, Linux would see some competition. Solaris has the capability to be infinitely more secure than Linux; ask any Solaris administrator to compare Solaris's process accouting versus FreeBSD's or Linux, and he'll slap you. Solaris features ipfilter, as does FreeBSD. I'm lucky enough to have a fully supported Xeon workstation, with the exception of sound. As I always say, "just because it's open source doesn't it make it good."
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I hope you recognize that you haven't made a single argument about Solaris's superiority to Linux in terms of performance and security. You're citing philosophy garbage, which when I'm running servers at work, that's irrelevant and quite funny.
I've stated in previous posts that Sun should concentrate on x86 support if they wish to compete with Linux. Nowhere am I insinuating that Solaris has better hardware support for x86 than Linux does.
As I've said, open source does not always been a top quality product. As is true with lots of GNU garbage.
Solaris 10 installs have been slightly successful on laptops. As for the rest of the consumer devices you stated, I'm happy with the way they are, and hope Linux doesn't infect them.
Ever since weenies started believing it's "cool" to run Linux.
This article is about Solaris, not Sun hardware. Don't make generalizations - "Solaris only runs on Sun hardware." Solaris runs on x86, and I've very impressed with the performance of Solaris 9 on my Xeons.
Newsflash: Solaris runs on x86 processors.
Hopefully, none.
Mac OSX doesn't run on x86 hardware, Solaris does.
If Sun would concentrate on increasing the x86 hardware support for Solaris, Linux would see some competition. Solaris has the capability to be infinitely more secure than Linux; ask any Solaris administrator to compare Solaris's process accouting versus FreeBSD's or Linux, and he'll slap you. Solaris features ipfilter, as does FreeBSD. I'm lucky enough to have a fully supported Xeon workstation, with the exception of sound. As I always say, "just because it's open source doesn't it make it good."
Solaris won't kill off AIX and HP-UX; they are designed for RS/6000's and HP9000's, respectively.