On 10/5/05, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenSolaris offers me absolutely nothing.
I wouldn't say that. Here are the items I find most attractive about Solaris: 1) Substantial performance gain on identical hardware. 2) An ABI that hasn't changed in over a decade. If you download a sound driver for Solaris 10 today, it will work with Solaris 15 (or whatever) unchanged. This is a major frustration for me with Linux kernel upgrades. I have Cisco and nVidia binary drivers that I have to contend with on every little point release update. 3) Significantly faster bootup times -- I think OpenSuse 10 is doing something similar though. 4) Integrated virtualization -- similar to Xen or VMWare. 5) Consistency. There is one Solaris/OpenSolaris. There are 500+ linux distros -- 99% of which have incompatible packaging systems, library versions, filesystem layouts, etc. Granted that consistency can be achived by sticking with Redhat/Fedora only, or Debian only, or whatever. If Solaris was just the name of another Linux distro that provided all of the benefits I've listed above, wouldn't you want to try it? Is it the Sun thing that turns you off? -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
