Compare VirtualBox on Linux to Solaris or Linux to Mac OS X. It's much better under Linux. It looks horrid regardless, but it seems pretty good on the performance side. VMware's non-existance on the premier enterprise system is steering the enterprise off of Solaris, regardless of what other virtualization technologies Sun has recently added to their portfolio. All open and closed games if they ever make it past Windows are going to Linux, such as Quake Wars. It pisses me off to say the least, since the GPL makes it painful to create a fully functional "translator". See FreeBSD for example, they have so far done a good job but it took many years of work.
I see the problem being with education. People are not educated on UNIX != Linux, and that some systems are still suited better for particular purposes. For maintainance that may well be Windows, if you're talking about aggregated patch and image deployment it's the easiest and fastest here. If you're talking stability over a multi-year period, it's still Solaris, followed by FreeBSD. For performance it seems this is where Linux at least on x86 has actually proven itself, which may partly explain why VMware chose it instead of Solaris. In 1999 I doubt Solaris' performance was bad but that's how it is, can't maintain a large set of ports on a small team. Currently their team is huge enough to support every OS under the sun, just look how many ports Opera does. Companies that code for specific operating systems in the attempt to alienate others, but not because of technical reasons get my stamp of no approval over the long period. Regardless of how Opera shipped their package, it is native, they don't require you to use BrandZ and forward X11, which is a joke compared to FreeBSD's compat layer in terms of transparency. James On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote: > > I thought I'd give Opera a chance on my snv90. Just to look how fast it > > is nowadays and wether or not flash/java is supported. > > > > However, I will -not- install the package. > > It has a base path of /usr/local. > > You are absolutely correct. Such thoughtlessness has annoyed me for > years (especially since FOSS started to be developed 99% on Linux). > > However, there is nothing we can do about it. So we just put in > a pragmatic loopback mount from /opt/local to /usr/local and let it > rest in peace. > > > Groeten vanuit moffeland -- Volker > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris > Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ > Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: vab at bb-c.de > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgr??e: 45 > Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080616/4144f6d1/attachment.html>
