> Reg, please , this is the DEVELOPMENT project
> of the next version of a
> upported Solaris O/S. Solaris is now being hit
> with the same Woes as
> ll other O/S's thats shipping on the X86
^ BUG!! FWIW the "quote original" widget dropped the "a" from "all" and
the "s"
from "supported"
> platform :
> To many different pieces of hardware and to many
> Vendors.
>
> If you want a smooth ride , buy a SUN Ultra 24
> workstation.
>
> //Lars
I understand and am not complaining.
My primary system is an Ultra 20 I've been using for 2 years. It's quite
satisfactory even if it's not a SPARC which is what I've normally used for
almost 20 years. I expect I'll get an Ultra 24 pretty soon as I need to
investigate how some scientific codes behave on quad core systems. If Sun sold
a laptop under $1000 I'd have bought it in a heartbeat. The scientific codes I
deal w/ are difficult enough I don't need any gratuitous distractions.
I'm ONLY using OpenSolaris on the laptop because a full day of struggle w/
Solaris 10 U5 on the laptop failed to get anything but the vga driver from Xorg
to work, and that at the wrong resolution. Why the Nvidia driver works on
OpenSolaris but doesn't work w/ U5 is quite a mystery. I plan to see if dtrace
will help me on that one.
Much of the instability of Linux probably derives from inadequate driver
testing. I've routinely seen IBM Intellistations running Red Hat lock up the X
server in a major oil company environment. That SHOULD be a well tested
system. Having a single partially tested driver in the system is OK, but if
you multiply that by a factor of 100, you get an unstable environment. Fedora
9 appeared to work OK after a little fiddle w/ X, but then I found that I
couldn't make a static route persist through a reboot. After a day of fighting
that I decided to go back to OpenSolaris.
Have Fun!
Reg
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