Hi Drexx, I was googling around the other day and bumped into the OpenSolaris website and I saw some high end laptops like Toshiba R600 with OpenSolaris preinstalled, it looks like Sun or should I say Oracle has gone a long way, it's been some time since I've installed and tried using OpenSolaris and it wasn't fun back then, my NIC was not detected and I have to compile for it to work. I do have an apprehension, what would happen now to OpenSolaris now that Oracle owns Sun? Will they continue to fund/support the project? I wish Oracle would GPL'd ZFS.
Regards, Jan On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Drexx Laggui [personal] <[email protected]>wrote: > 06Aug2009 (UTC +8) > > Government Computer News interviews Sun engineer Harry Foxwell: > > "Why Linux administrators should consider OpenSolaris" > > http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/07/27/GCN-Interview-Foxwell-OpenSolaris.aspx?p=1 > > > Some interesting stuff: > > GCN: Why would Linux administrators want to take a look at OpenSolaris? > > Henry Foxwell: Three reasons. First, it is designed to look like the > environment that a Linux developer and administrator is familiar with. > It has the Gnome [desktop environment] and all the GNU and Gnome > tools. So the learning effort is not great, because the environment > looks very much the same. > > Another reason is that it includes all of the open-source AMP > [Apache-MySql-PHP/Perl/Python] stack software that administrators and > developers are familiar with. So again, the tools you use to build the > infrastructure, the Web-based application services, will be familiar > to you here. > > The point that I made in the beginning of the book is that some people > call themselves Linux developers but they really are open-source > developers who happen to run their applications on a Linux OS. They > could, in theory, use some other OS to support the tools they use. And > OpenSolaris, in fact, does. > > And third and most important reason is that we believe OpenSolaris has > interesting technologies that are not in Linux. For example, it has > built-in virtualization in the form of Zones. It includes the very > popular ZFS [128-bit] file system, and the DTrace [debugger tool]. It > includes a new way of managing services called the Service Management > Facility. > > [...] > > GCN: What are the steps for moving a server from Linux to OpenSolaris? > > Foxwell: What you have would determine how much effort it would take > to go from one to the other. > > If you have a Web-based infrastructure — a Linux application server, > database server and Web server -- moving from Linux to OpenSolaris > would be fairly straightforward. The tools are pretty much the same, > so essentially [all you'd need to do is] transfer your scripts, > configuration files and data. > > For custom C or C++ code, we do have the tools for recompiling. We > have support for the GCC compiler or, of course, you could use the Sun > compiler. And all the tools, the libraries and documentation are there > to do that compilation. > > > GCN: Solaris has had the reputation for not having enough drivers for > non-Sun hardware. Has support improved for OpenSolaris? > > Foxwell: It certainly was a deserved reputation the past. With earlier > versions of Solaris, especially for the Intel platform, it was > difficult to find the drivers. Today, because of the great > contribution of the OpenSolaris community, we have literally thousands > of components that are supported. The place to go for these drivers is > the Sun Web site's Hardware Compatibility List > [www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/]. It is a listing of all the devices and > components that work under Solaris. Certainly we are missing a few, > but the most of the common ones are there. > > Just as an example, I installed OpenSolaris on a random laptop the > other day. And the only thing missing was the driver for the modem, > which no one uses anyway. > > [...] > > > Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA > http://www.laggui.com ( Singapore / Manila / California ) > Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; K-Transfer > PGP fingerprint = 6E62 A089 E3EA 1B93 BFB4 8363 FFEC 3976 FF31 8A4E > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- http://jangestre.blogpsot.com
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