This paper tries to compare Linux vs. Solaris. Its author comes to many conclusions, among which this is one of the more interesting: "All-in-all Solaris is a powerful, stable, conformant-to-standards OS that can run many open source applications as well as Linux, and some (mainly multithreaded applications) better than Linux. Like in the cases of Red Hat and Suse, the cost of support is extra, but it is more reasonably priced. Security patches are free which makes Solaris similar to Windows."
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Member since:2006-04-25
What are you talking about? Acrobat reader existed on Solaris before it did on Linux. Hell, version 7.0.8 is available for download. (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html) Hit the drop down and it is there clear as day! As for VMWare, well their low end offerings are only available on Linux and Windows. The only thing that Linux has on Solaris, is that there are far more Linux trolls than there are Solaris trolls.
Member since:2005-07-06
Find me a recent version of Acrobat Reader for Solaris x86. I'll be a happy camper, seeing as how that's what I'm posting this message from.
As for VMWare, as far as I'm aware none of their offerings support Solaris as a host OS.
And don't even get me started on driver support.
Nevada's getting better but it doesn't hold a candle to Linux on that front.
From the otherside, I'd kill to see things like Dtrace and ZFS on Linux, Ditto for the presence of a stable ABI.
Edited 2006-06-15 01:18
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2005-07-06
Anything Linux has, Solaris has
Not entirely true.
Quite a few proprietary programs that Linux based OSes enjoy don't exist on Solaris just yet. VMWare and modern versions of the Acrobat reader come to mind.