> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lebar, Russell J wrote:
> > Linux is just a better desktop platform choice these days. For > > example, if a new version of KDE comes out on Linux I can > just get the binaries. > > On Solaris I get to compile it myself. > > Binaries for Solaris are distributed from a number of > different places. Security-conscious sites (if there are any > left!) will build from source anyway, but the notion that > Solaris binaries are somehow unavailable is bunk. They're > just not found in the same places as the Linux binaries. There's a difference between contributed, community supported binaries and vendor supported ones. Company policy may prevent installing the contributed binaries. And by definition vendors can insure better integration with the target platform since the target platform is their own. With a contributed binary I may have dependancy issues or conflicts with other software installed on the system to deal with. And that still doesn't address timliness issues. When a new version of KDE, Firefox, etc. comes out there are binaries for Linux readily available. What do you do on Solaris, especially if you concerned about security vulnerabilities? For example on Mozilla the contributed Firefox binaries jump from 1.04 to 1.06 -- no one contributed Solaris binaries for 1.05. And yes, KDE on Solaris is seeing better support these days, especially thanks to the Open Solaris project and Stefan Teleman. Now, I just need to get our Sun Ray servers to Solaris 10.... :-/ -- Russ _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
