Blastwave has it's own trade-offs. God help you if you install everything and then want to install/deinstall the OSS driver with /opt/csw in your path. Not to mention the wacky 'pick a uid' lottery that goes with package installs that require one... Picking from the bottom up would make sense but is that the default? No.... And if you're not careful with all the yessing and noing that goes with that, you're going to end up going back to do surgery on your services, which is a special joy all it's own.
As for performance, well, is anyone running anything that doesn't have mmx and sse bits on an x86? Or other than ultra1 capable hardware for Solaris 10+? Put it this way, I have an old ss20 that I've got hypersparc's in. I keep it mainly because I use it to model netbackup under Solaris 9 on. I don't expect either Blastwave or Sunfreeware to run programs as fast as they would on that machine if I built them for it, and I consider the box to be obsolete. At least I *can* run things on it though, and can use the thing as a test bench still because of that capacity. So there's trade offs that do not make either of these solutions ideal. Some of the design decisions I dislike are ones that under different conditions I value. Dealing with changes related to hardware and OS means some real work from building stuff to website work, much less the hardware resources that go with it... For the record, I've had very good luck with both Sunfreeware and Blastwave, and as long as you're paying attention to what you're doing, they work VERY well for free packages. Compared to the same resources for other commercial Unixes, what's there for Solaris kicks the competitions butts. For open source stuff, I'd rate both Blastwave and Sunfreeware well in comparison to FreeBSD, which is kind of a gold standard for working as advertised when compared to the anarchy that is Linux distros... There is no comparison to Windows, because the level of chaos involved makes comparisons impossible. There might be some to MacOS, but I can't bring myself to care given they make OS's like HP/UX, AIX, but not quite SCO look like models of open source development... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
