The Driver Problem

The Driver Problem

Posted Aug 17, 2005 20:22 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Sun'S Linux killer shows promise (Register) by cdmiller
Parent article: Sun's Linux killer shows promise (Register)

Users can get the best of both worlds by running Solarix as a guest OS on Linux. Then the only device drivers Solarix needs are for the virtual devices Linux presents to guest OSes.

Once your program is tuned, you can move one or the other native. I.e., in production, either run the program directly on Linux, or run Solarix directly on target hardware (for which you happen to have drivers, or which you chose carefully to be certain you would).

Of course the former doesn't do Sun any good unless they sell you tuning services.

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