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Sun's Web StackSun's Web StackPosted Jul 24, 2008 3:29 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)Parent article: Sun's Web Stack
It's not exactly a new recipe. "AMP" is so well known as (presumably) respected because it's tried and true. Putting it on Solaris instead of Linux as an advantage? Well, I'm not qualified to comment, since I have never administered a Solaris machine, but I would wager that while useful, it's hardly groundbreaking. So they're announcing that they're...doing something that everybody else is doing. And it's new and different, because they're doing it now. Way to go, Sun!
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Sun's Web Stack Posted Jul 24, 2008 4:05 UTC (Thu) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804) [Link] s/doing/renaming and supporting/ ~= And it's new and different, because they're doing it now.They've been working on the CoolStack, which is what Sun Web Stack used to be known as, for more than a year. There are some security benefits to going with Solaris over Linux, like granting Apache permission to bind to port 80 so you don't have to start it as root, but they're not huge.
Sun's Web Stack Posted Jul 24, 2008 5:31 UTC (Thu) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link] Not really dude... You can do that on a modern Linux kernel. They added the per-file-capabilities patch from Serge Hallyn of IBM in a very recent kernel. If you think I'm making this up: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.... All you have to do is use the userspace tools and give apache CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE. There is an example on the page to download the userspace tools here: http://www.olafdietsche.de/linux/capability/ Solaris had this feature first, but Linux also has it now.
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