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Posted on 04/13/2007 10:47:15 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Oliver Jones provides an even-handed summary: "I've been a stalwart Solaris x86 user for many years now - I refuse to run Linux on my hardware, when Solaris makes the penguin look decidedly second-rate." For reliability, he says: "I truly can't fault the Sun option: I consider that if Solaris is good enough for the banks, it's good enough for me."
But, he also says: "To be honest, Solaris isn't without issues - the number one I see at the moment is the user experience (especially with regard to hardware support). Sun really needs to plough some more development resources into hardware support, but we're getting there: Solaris x86 is absolutely fantastic compared to how it was in 2004, but it still has a while to go. Having the likes of Nvidia on-board is great, and hopefully the hardware support will accrete with time - as more people see the benefits of going Sun."
(Excerpt) Read more at regdeveloper.co.uk ...
You’d have to be out of your mind to want anything to do with proprietary unix variants at this point.
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I disagree, you use the right tool for the right job.. If for no other reason than the hardware they tend to run on sometimes an OS like AIX or Solaris is the right too.
Why was BSD left out of this fight?
Some problems with how this is being evaluated
“However, for businesses, he thinks Solaris is a bit of a killer option - about the same level of difficulty to handle as Linux and “every Solaris installation basically works the same way”, he says, while, “Linux has a huge problem in that every distro has its own way of doing things, and it makes supporting Linux prohibitively expensive”.”
The cost of support for RedHat and Solaris are pretty close. He is correct in saying every distro does some things differently but who the heck runs different distors in a shop?
BUt the article does make some fair points..
We want platforms with support software ;)
Linux does far better than your experience, though. I have personally installed several Top 500 computers and they all run Linux. The latest one I did was a 1200+ node monster for the ARL in Aberdeen.
LOL, do you ever get anything right? Solaris support costs about half what Red Hat does.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/16/HNsunundercutsredhat_1.html
You’ve personally installed several supercomputers huh. Wasn’t very long ago you said you worked for some small device company building routers or something wasn’t it? Sorry to be so skeptical, but you were caught the other day claiming you had been quote “exclusively” using Linux on your laptop, when we knew from other older posts it actually had an instance of Windows on there.
Yep--changed jobs.
Sorry to be so skeptical, but you were caught the other day claiming you had been quote “exclusively” using Linux on your laptop, when we knew from other older posts it actually had an instance of Windows on there.
That "instance" is a VM, and my computer never boots up to Windows. That has been explained before, but since we can see you don't understand basic set theory, I don't expect you to admit that you don't know what you're talking about on this subject either.
LOL, I understand perfectly what the word “exclusively” means, and you haven’t been running Linux “exclusively” on your laptop no matter how you want to try to twist it.
And since your recent job change, you’ve supposedly already installed “several” supercomputers? That’s pretty funny too, since my experience with them is it can take a year or more to set a single one up. The actual top500 info on ARL shows about 1 per year for them as well.
http://www.top500.org/site/1820
So what was your job? Unboxing everything? Or driving the truck.
Why?
I’ve got greater stability and a smaller footprint.
It’s faster(higher performance) too.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^So what was your job? Unboxing everything? Or driving the truck.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Do you think for once you could skip the vitriol?
Your abysmal lack of reading comprehension does not constitute a lie on my part.
Just correcting the endless mistruths. Shadowman here said just the other day he had been using Linux "exclusively on his laptop for years" when the fact is he's got a Windows partition on there. Now he says he's "setup several supercomputers" when the fact is he just recently changed jobs. He's been posting BS like this for years, I remember the time he tried to argue with me that my own Blackberry ran on Linux instead of Java LOL. He's far from the only one posting bull like this either, his ping list buddy keeps going from thread to thread claiming Windows 2000 is "unsupported" when Microsoft is actually providing free automatic security patching for the O/S till 2010.
You may not care if a small group of posters goes from thread to thread spreading lies, but it does everyone a great disservice. Not to mention there are a lot of leftist kooks behind the free software "movement", looks like you're from China or something yourself. These are facts, got any yourself? Or are you reduced to personal attacks against me like they are?
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