Sun Microsystems makes new releases of Solaris about every four to six months, in many cases all the new release contains is bug fixes and some changes in functionality. More often than not most releases go by without a great deal of fanfare. Just as Solaris 10 3/05 broke new ground with Zones, Dtrace and the Service Management Facility. Solaris 10 6/06 introduces ZFS or Zettabyte File System and the SATA framework and Xorg 6.9, which will be the primary focus of this review.
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Member since:2005-07-08
Actually what I should have said was that an enthusiast will buy a motherboard or an expansion card with a Silicon Image controller logic before they spend the money on an LSI (or similar high-end) card.
The administrator is of course going to spend big bucks on the LSI (or similar) card. But if Sun is truly trying to get home hobbyists and users interested in Solaris, then Sun is going to have to make some compromizes on what hardware they intend to support.
Member since:2005-07-06
But if Sun is truly trying to get home hobbyists and users interested in Solaris
What makes you think Sun gives a rat's ass about home hobbyists? Even Open Solaris is targetted at developers, and it happened mainly because Sun's engineers wanted it and Sun's customers wanted it. It doesn't make any sense at all for Sun to have hobbyists on their radar.
Member since:2005-07-08
Isn't that how Linux started, as something for "developers only"? I can't agree with you at all considering what I read on a daily basis from the various OpenSolaris forums.
And why wouldn't Sun be interested in the viewpoint of the hobbyist, that is how Linux migrated from the basement to the server room. For a long time Sun ignored Solaris x86 until several Sun officials met with the "Secret Six" and they demonstrated the value of continued development and support of Solaris x86. I personally think they are listening intently to those hobbyists.
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2005-07-06
It is more likely that your average enthusiast is going to buy a motherboard or controller card with a Silicon Image card than buy a LSI Logic card that costs considerably more than most motherboards.
By that, you mean, "It is more likely that your average server admin is going to buy a LSI Logic card that costs considerably more than most enthusiasts' motherboards."