On Mar 23, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
think it has SMP now although probably not as mature as Linux's SMP since it has been around so much longer.
By this argument, I should jump on the OpenSolaris bandwagon. Linux SMP support has never been all that great.
<grins sheepishly>
Uh, yes. In fact, I have been looking at moving quite a lot of systems to OpenSolaris.
The SMP support is one of the big features. However, the big feature I am looking forward to is:
*quality assurance*
The simple fact that someone, somewhere has a set of programs that *must work* with the new version with no changes. The fact that someone tested this. The fact that I can get the *exact* configuration as I had 4 years ago *and it still works*.
I have stuff that was written and compiled for Solaris 2.6 Sparc. It still runs on Solaris 2.9 Sparc (we're testing on Solaris 10 Sparc now, but expect to see no failures there). That's almost what? 10 *years*. Try finding a Linux binary from 10 years ago and see if it runs on *any* Linux today. If Sun can start this kind of support in the x86 line, I will be hard pressed to recommend any of the Linux or *BSD OS's as a corporate solution.
FreeBSD used to be the only thing that even *tried*. For a while, you could run early 2.X stuff in 4.X series. I think most of that broke as of the 5.X upgrade. I really hope they get back to that attitude of providing backward compatible shims.
-a
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