> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > In that area Solaris saves a lot of time comparing to Linux. > > And therefore, presumably, saves money too. > > -- > Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member > > President, > Rite Online Inc.
Definitely. Unfortunately will most UNIX-clone users never realize that. And even if: Would they ever admit it? I didn't use Linux very often in my life (as you know). But when I tried it, I instantly had to understand what you mean: LoadableKernelModules's versus incompatible kernel revisions. (i.e. VMware) Binaries versus incompatible glibc revisions. (i.e. AcrobatReader) Even sources requiring a glibc higher than x.xx in some cases. (i.e. Qemu) I only talked about a single distro with a release progress of 0.8 (two years) so far. All the (often incompatible) distributions give it the rest. That's enough. I don't need to provide examples for how different backward compatibility looks on Solaris 2.11 down to things originally compiled on/linked against at least 2.6 (if not 2.3 [or in certain cases still older]). Source backward compatibility is also amazing (I had to deal with a tetris version from 1989 last week). Okay - a few kernel interfaces did disappear (and compiles like 1993's aperture driver will break). But SUNW has certainly the best documentation. Covering those changes carefully. -- Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
