On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:52 -0700, bsd wrote: > I almost built my infrastructure on OpenSolaris and Solaris but am glad I > decided to opt for FreeBSD and OpenBSD instead. > > There are way too many problems with OpenSolaris anymore that it wasn't > reliable. Now throw in the 90 day evaluation and then buy costly support is > icing on the cake. > > It would be funny if Oracle decided to rescind the open binary licenses and > then OpenSolaris would be left with nothing. > > I've used FreeBSD for 10 years and they may miss their release date like the > did with 8.0 and have a number of release candidates, but I've never > experienced any problems with an RC like I did with OpenSolaris. OpenBSD > releases like a clock. > > Anyway, I needed servers and OpenSolaris was built for desktops and laptops. > For a quality alternative to OpenSolaris, look at switching to FreeBSD and/or > OpenBSD! You'll be glad you made the switch!!
As someone who's used them for a few years longer than that, I can attest that Open/Solaris can do some pretty cool things that the *BSD's cannot. Each has their place. All other things being equal, I'd probably opt for OBSD at the borders and choose Solaris for app server, data storage, and such. All other things are not, however, and in an unfortunate cruel twist of fate we can no longer use Solaris w/o having to sell a kidney and handing the proceeds over to Scary Larry. Note that I am very disappointed in recent events and done my fair share of grousing - but let's not dis Open/Solaris technical merits nor the developers invest their labors into making them even better just because some asshole now owns Sun. -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
