[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The only code from Linux that would be of interest for Solaris
> is driver code. Solaris has a much better overall kernel implementation.
Once there were two video tape standards, Beta and VHS. Beta was
better by every technical measurement. Beta died.
Once there was UNIX and a small, unreliable, featureless o/s with a
bad user interface, called PC-DOS. People loved PC-DOS and it's
successors.
Once we tried to tell SCO that they should develop a branded Linux as
the best on the market. They insisted that it was for hackers and that
business leaders would demand a real commercial UNIX. Their assets were
sold to a Linux company.
The point is, it doesn't matter if you think Solaris is better (and
that depends on how you define better), I think Solaris is headed the
way of OpenWindows, and that in five years it will be a product which
either is not supported or is used by only a small cliqueue of users.
As head of a UNIX User's Group, I know how hard it is to get people to
speak with enthusiasm about any other flavor of UNIX. I offer salesmen a
platform to talk about what's new in Solaris, AIX, UNISYS-UNIX, or
whatever, and they talk about a little diddle here or there. Then the
Linux people talk about new apps, new devices, network device, new
firewall capabilities, multimedia, etc.
In many cases Linux has become the platform of first development, or
a "must support" platform for commercial software. Having movie studios
use it to develop animated movies didn't hurt public awareness, nor did
mention during the first (July 4th) Mars mission. There's a reason why
I can't buy some applications for AIX but I can for Linux, that's just
the way the market is going.
I don't think many developers or users are blind to limitations of
Linux, but frankly they don't limit most people, and there are mostly
tradeoffs, like any choice. Does BSD have faster networking? When BSD
and Linux will both saturate 100Mbit without significant CPU on PC or
SPARC, does it matter? I look at the firewall code, and maybe pick Linux
2.4 series instead. I choose based on admin interface, or support, or
whatever.
Better is in the eye of the beholder...
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-bill davidsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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