Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Aug 2005 17:31 UTC
If Sun gets very serious about Solaris 10 on x86 and the Open Solaris project that it hopes will nourish it, Linux vendors had better get very worried. That's because, in the many areas where Linux is miles ahead of Solaris, Sun stands a good chance of catching up quickly if it has the will, whereas in the many areas where Solaris is miles ahead, the Linux community will be hard pressed to narrow the gap.
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RE: Solaris: a new master for Linux cloning
by Robert Escue on Wed 17th Aug 2005 23:59
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Do you know what you are talking about? Have you actually used Solaris? Solaris x86 is already a "player" in virtualization with Zones and Containers, which is vastly superior to anything Linux has to offer when used together. Sun is also contributing to the development of Xen, see the discussions on www.opensolaris.org.
RE[2]: Solaris: a new master for Linux cloning
by Arun on Thu 18th Aug 2005 00:27
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Keeping up with Linux will be an uphill battle because there won't be a reason switch from Linux to Solaris. Now because of hardware support, and soon because Linux systems will clone the features that the community wants. How long before Novell starts marketing an enhanced (thinner, container-style) Usermode Linux and making it easy to configure application partitions within a host, possibly a virtual host amongst others running on XEN? Virtualization is the future, and Solaris won't be the key player in x86 virtualization.
Solaris will have one effect on Linux development: it will provide a whole new set of ideas to clone from. The free software community, rallying primarily around Linux, is putting the finishing touches on all the feature clones that were inspired by Windows. There are some key MacOSX features that the we would also like to have on Linux systems, and these are in development. Now, with the push towards migrating traditional mainframe applications to UNIX systems via virtualization and clustering, Linux will look to Solaris for cues.