> But you already claimed OpenBSD has unacceptable limitations for the desktop > that Solaris doesn''t have. BTW Solaris has roots in a 30 year old technology > not 10. Having said this Solaris is far more modern than that in just about > everything, and with OpenSolaris now, is Solaris locked into technology any > more than OpenBSD ?
I'm not advocating OpenBSD for the desktop. And if you want to talk about roots, OpenBSD has its roots in NetBSD which has its roots in BSD. Solaris from what I know has its roots in the merging of BSD derived SunOS with SVR4 because SVR4 was more advanced at the time. Whereas Solaris got refreshed with the more advanced codebase, OpenBSD enjoys the benefits of a complete security audit to eliminate vulnerabilities from the old BSD days when security wasn't much of a concern. I admit that Solaris is more scalable (OpenBSD often performs worse with SMP enabled, for example) and possibly more stable, but that's because the developers care more about security. > A pretty non-integrated solution, perhaps its telling that the only platform > systrace doesn't target is Solaris. Maybe there is no market for it Systrace requires kernel hooks. That hasn't been possible with Solaris for very long, and it probably never will happen if Solaris has an equivalent mechanism in place already. > As there is now the option to use Solaris Express or OpenSolaris if you want > the bleeding edge, of course with all the comfort that the stable DDI and ABI > guarantee gives you about being able to use your existing binaries and > drivers at the bleeding edge. Using a bleeding edge solaris is far less a > risk that a bleeding edge linux. The latest Solaris Express and OpenSolaris give me the core features like ZFS, but I need distros like Nexenta to deliver recent versions of GNOME, for example. > You can use the latest packages if you like but you'll need to build them. If > you want portage like support then use pkgsrc. At least you know you can run > the unstable ones in a zone I can use pkgsrc on OpenSolaris if I don't want to run GNOME, KDE, Firefox, etc., and if I want to fight to compile Xorg. portage rarely breaks even for large packages. pkgsrc rarely works. I give them credit for supporting so many platforms and compilers, and it works well on NetBSD, but SchilliX is largely a no-go with pkgsrc. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
