> I know WINE supports Solaris, but I don't think > CrossOver Office and Cedega do, so running MS Office > and games gets significantly trickier.
Do you really need MS Office when OpenOffice.org reads/writes MS formats? I've found OOo to be so much easier to use than MS Office. > bittorrent without the GUI. Gentoo portage supports > it all. Blastwave misses by a long shot. The closest > I get is Nexenta and installing stuff like MPlayer > manually, but that Linux PPC cross toolchain sure > would be a pain. Perhaps not today, but in a year or two Solaris might just become THE platform on which these projects will be developed on. The chances of that are high, because the question isn't why, but -- why not? > Linux runs on everything from many of the top > supercomputers to embedded applications like DVD > players and broadband routers. IBM, RedHat, and SUSE > are all very much involved in enterprise Linux. I'd > call this one a draw. I'd call it a losing proposition and a sinking ship for the companies involved. Time will tell. We should take a look at the state of affairs one, two and five years from now. > Cleaner and faster than OpenBSD, probably, but I use > OpenBSD for security because it's been > security-oriented for years. Trusted Solaris might be > a better Sun product to compare OpenBSD to, but it's > still proprietary and lacks the network enhancements. > I'm not sure how firewalling on Solaris compares to > PF, but openbsd.org gives very clear instructions on > setting up even complicated stuff like load balancing > with PF. This is a fallacy. Why? Because I can give you a Solaris box so locked down, that the only thing you could bang on is the OpenSSH -- the very same OpenSSH used on OpenBSD. What does that make Solaris? It makes it exactly as secure as OpenBSD. In addition, like OpenBSD has PF, Solaris has had IPFilter for years (which has recently been integrated by Sun). IPFilter can do load balancing as well. My point is that such comparisons are useless because you can easily bring OpenBSD or Solaris on the same playing level. BTW, did you know that Solaris (and I don't mean trusted Solaris) has been the bread-and-butter firewall platform (mostly in combination with CheckPoint, some with IPFilter) for years in enterprises both big and small? > That's an advantage. The usability of Linux and > security of OpenBSD, for example, are mutally > exclusive. That's the game yoyu have to play: either you have usability or you have security, but there are some sweet spots in the middle -- this is what Solaris capitalizes on and is very good at. You can make this platform go either ways according to your needs or keep it right in the 'sweet spot'. Neither Linux nor OpenBSD are currently in a realistic position to offer that. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
