S Destika wrote:
I was expecting one *community inspired* reply from Sun guys - all replies
I got were targetted at selling Solaris at the expense of spreading FUD
against Linux either due to vested interests in selling Solaris or due to
plain misunderstanding.
So given that you started this by saying:
> It's common knowledge for any technical person that Linux is faster than
Solaris.
I find it amusing that you're complaining that someone is spreading FUD about
Linux.
Suppose I said it's common knowlege that oranges are tasier than bananas on a
banana mailing list... and then complained that others were spreading FUD.
What did you mean by "a community-inspired response"? Given that this is a
Solaris community, what the heck did you expect? If you extoll the virtues
of Linux over BSD on a *BSD mailing list, do they not respond in a similar
fashion?
Kinda funny watching how corporates jumping onto opensource "bandwagon" don't
understand how to become a brick in the wall with it's own position offering and
deriving support to and from other bricks in the same wall!
I think this must have lost something in translation; in general, mixed
metaphors are
a pain in the neck and should be thrown out the window.
I chatted with a friend of mine who purchased AMD64 hardware from Sun - after
running into issues with BAD RAM (pretty common) Sun support guys kept on asking
him why aren't they running Solaris on it yet! It's anybody's guess what it means
Sun supports OSS...
So let me guess... he was running some Linux distro and got random crashes
of unknown origin, but since he doen't even have a core file they're kind of
stuck.
One of the projects currently underway is to extend the Solarais Fault
Management
archtecture to amd64 so we can correctly report and diagnose memory failures
from the
OS like we do on SPARC; this will really help reduce these kinds of problems.
Of course, it means that the support folks will have even more reasons to ask
why they're not running Solaris.
- Bart
--
Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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