Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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Many of the good things in Solaris are from other companies (Disksuite, Veritas, X, Gnome, CDE, et al). Other than their core software, Sun has nothing high-quality to offer (some would say Solaris is a creaky old mess too... UFS with hacked-in journalling... ugh...). If you work with Solaris and a well-configured Linux system, your eyes will snap open as to how kludgy Solaris is, despite all its vaunted stability.
WRONG. Disk suite is developed by Sun. X is standard on most *nixes. The X that comes with solaris is developed in house, same as CDE. CDE was a joint effort by Sun, IBM and Novell, thus the common desktop environment.
How could you have been an Sun reseller for many years if your basic Unix knowkledge is so lacking? My guess is you are a linux zealot trolling here, and trying to gaing credibility by claiming to have been a Sun reseller. Sorry but your statements speak of your ignorance loud and clear.
UFS in a solaris 9 update gainned tremendous performance gains, ecspecially with logging enabled. Sun just announced the revolutionary 128-bit DFS filesystem. UFS is extremely stable and reliable and now perfroms relatvely well too.
Solaris is kludgy??? Solaris has had technologies for decades that your beloved 2.6 kernel just got recently. Just check slab.c and look at the comment about the slab allocator. NPTL, solaris has default 1:1 thread libraries in solaris 9, enabled as an option on 8. Solaris 10 is light years ahead of linux, linux doesn't even have a kernel debugger yet kgdb is just being developed. linux's tracing tools are lacking, look at DTrace. Forget dtrace even the tools like pgrep, pmap, pstack, mpstat kick linux senseless for system observability tools. Linux doesn't even have crash dump support by default yet. Linux is still growing and the features I have outlined are very important for enterprises.
Go learn something, just becuase you can type configure and make and run linux doesn't make you l33t hacker who can pass judgement on OS design.