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OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)Posted Jul 15, 2010 14:59 UTC (Thu) by trasz (guest, #45786)In reply to: OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H) by vonbrand Parent article: OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)
WRT the IPX - it's old problem of overhead vs. scalability. Linux always had smaller overhead. So, if you have hardware manufactured in 1994, it's much better choice, I agree. :->
For the spinlocks, see below. In short: they are slow and they don't scale.
As for filesystems - Linux doesn't have anything comparable to ZFS, and this is a huge drawback - snapshots, clones (great for upgrading), fast incremental backups, checksums, not having to size your filesystems by hand and generally fsck with LVM, to mention a few I'm using. But yeah, for handling PC floppies Solaris probably sucked.
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OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H) Posted Jul 15, 2010 23:59 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]
It must burn you up that no matter how highly you regard ZFS it's not stopping Linux from burying Solaris.
OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H) Posted Jul 16, 2010 11:18 UTC (Fri) by trasz (guest, #45786) [Link]
It must burn you up that no matter how highly you regard Linux it's not stopping pretty much everyone from ignoring it on desktop ;->
OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H) Posted Jul 20, 2010 14:01 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
While Solaris on the desktop is just *everywhere*, yeah.
(perhaps in a better world...)
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