Joe Little wrote:
On 5/20/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > One picks Linux "as the best choice" only if one doesn't know
what one is doing. It is as simple as that.
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> This kind of thing is coming across more and more as irrational
hatred.
> Take it elsewhere, it's not helpful.
It's not hatred, it's true. There is nothing Linux has that Solaris
doesn't either.
on x86, its still the sore point of drivers. Regardless of what your
views on what constitutes "running" -- I have many pieces of hardware
from '96 to the present that will run w/ Linux, but not with Solaris.
Probably a good 50-60% in fact. Why? As Ian says, its critical mass,
and no amount of being "better engineered" solves that.
Stability issues favor Solaris drivers:
Having a stable kernel interface which doesn't potentially break drivers
with every rev means we can probably get by with a smaller critical mass
than GNU/Linux. (or at the very least we can share binary and source
drivers between all OpenSolaris distributions.) But I agree, we're not
there yet.
Legal issues appear to favor GNU/Linux drivers:
The average user probably doesn't care why device X works on GNU/Linux
but not on OpenSolaris, but when I find that DVD players and the
built-in SD-Card reader on my laptop work on Linux but not Solaris and
then I learn that IP and Legal issues make it impossible for fully legal
open source implementations of SD MMC stacks
(http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6640645071.html) and DVD(MPEG2+CSS)
to exist, I wonder how this works. I can't believe Sun is the only Open
Source vender which tries to play by the rules.
Except that Solaris has more, much more. So anybody picking Linux as
"the best solution" does so out of pure ignorance and incompetence.
Ignorance and incompetence have no place in Informatics and Computer
Science.
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