More DTrace envy
More DTrace envy
Posted Jul 2, 2008 23:53 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)In reply to: More DTrace envy by martinfick
Parent article: More DTrace envy
To an extent, it's unfair comparing Solaris with desktop Linux distributions. If you compare Solaris to RHEL or SLES, it doesn't fare as badly. For instance, desktop Linux distributions have power management functionality that's still nowhere near present in any shipping versions of Solaris. Enterprise Linux distributions aren't likely to ship that functionality until next year, and they're the market that Solaris is competing with. (Though, really, I expect we'll still be ahead on power management for a long time. Solaris isn't anywhere near supporting a tickless kernel and that's one of the major factors in the idle power consumption on modern hardware)
