Sun's Linux killer shows promise (Register) [LWN.net]

Sun's Linux killer shows promise (Register)

Posted Aug 20, 2005 20:04 UTC (Sat) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206)
Parent article: Sun's Linux killer shows promise (Register)

OK this is just a bit better quality journalistic COMMENT than that we
are used to with M$ but:

I cannot remember the last time I could not stop a user land application,
JavaScript, X, Java or anything else or the last time I had to SSH into
a Linux box because <CTL>-<ALT>-<BS> would not restart X or <CTL>-<ALT>-<Fn>
would not give me a text console, where I could (root) login. So this is just FUD.

The driver issue is much more serious, I SUN think that they can just build
Solaris pre-loadable boxes they are in the last decade but one. Please wait till the next release, it will have XXX support.

D-probes is nice, mainly for the POLISH but Kprobes is enaough, and more flexible; but that is not the point, what is is the very obvious marketing x
in house development spin given to it ... "Whey look at what our smart dev-team came up with now, ... it will rock the competition" _not_! The
fundamental reason SOO MANY, ALMOST ALL computer companies have lost their way after the first generation is that, for unexplored,
reasons this marketing + in-house-dev duopoly never produces what the market needs,
in a timely way, and seems positively inimical to good engineering.

The difficult question are (a) do SUN see this, (b) does the OpenSolaris
sponsor have the needed clout?

Sadly, if you just look at Java, you see how hard this is, at so many levels.

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