Sorry to top post, but here goes: you'll find that seemingly EVERYTHING on lxer.com is no better than your observations of this particular topic. They are no better than extreme right/left publications on politics, they just cover linux/everything that is not linux, and it's *ALWAYS* the same outcome to them. I wouldn't even mind it if they'd at least substanciate what they preach, they never do.
lxer.com is on my url blacklist. :) David ----- Original Message ----- From: Nils Nieuwejaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 1, 2006 8:27 am Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun lost one of it's biggest and oldest x86 customer > On Thu 06/01/06 at 09:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "Solaris is a better Linux than Linux" ?Marc Andreessen > > > > You know what...that ticked me off. I love Sun but such viral > marketing > > campaigns? > > > > Anyways, here is a response on that topic > > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/55094/index.html > > I rarely follow this sort of link, since I inevitably end up > rolling my > eyes and sighing a lot. I'm not sure why I did this time, but I > found that > this response: > > - takes issue with the claim that ZFS is superior to Linux > filesystems. He lists 4 Linux filesystems, but doesn't > explain how any of them come close to matching ZFS. > > - Admits that Linux doesn't have containers, but makes the silly > suggestion that UML is more or less the same. > > - Claims that Linux is somehow "more free" than Solaris because it > uses the GPL instead of CDDL, without offering any > explanation of > why GPL is preferable. Both are approved Open Source > licenses. > - Says something about proprietary software and interoperability. > I can't figure out what he is trying to say, or what he is > responding to, but he certainly doesn't offer any > evidence (even > anecdotal) that Linux is more interoperable than Solaris. > > - Quotes a reader who has a friend who "has been a Senior Engineer > at Sun for well over a decade" and claims that we had > "completely rewritten the kernel" for Solaris 10. Anybody > who has even > glanced at the source available on opensolaris.org would > know that one or more of these people are simply making > stuff up. > > - Has some fair, if typically overstated and blustery, criticism of > our installer, which tails off with a complaint about > CDE. Since > we have been shipping Gnome for years now, this last bit > seems a > little silly. > > - And my favorite: "[Since 2004...] Linux has matched Solaris > almost feature for feature." So Linux now has the > functionality offered by zones, SRM, Predictive Self > Healing, SMF, ZFS, and (of > course) DTrace? C'mon. This doesn't even pass the laugh > test. > These "responses" would be much more effective if the authors would > juststick to those areas in which Linux actually is superior - > because they > certainly exist. Comparing Ubuntu's installer to ours makes that > blindingly obvious. Hardware support is generally another area > where they > win - although I can use wifi on my Ferrari under Solaris, but not > Linux. > Instead, they seem to spend most of their time and energy vigorously > handwaving away the areas in which we have the advantage. Since this > inevitably requires listing all the cool stuff available in > Solaris, they > are really making our case for us. > > Nils > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
