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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Bullshit, Linux break things.
Take my case: I need to use the proprietary software package for mathematics called Maple. There are no free software alternatives (they're buggy and behind the curve - you just don't have that many math Phds in the free software community...)
I ditched my old Debian (it was getting very old) to Ubuntu, and now can't install Maple. I would not have this problem if I was using Windows. I suspect this problem can be avoided on FreeBSD too, because, according to this ( http://www.cons.org/cracauer/freebsd.html ) page, you can have incompatible C libraries throught the ports system, and the problem is the library broke with the upgrade. Better yet, I suspect PC-BSD with the PBI installer might turn up to be very cool (I don't know, because my Linux won't burn the image - and my machine is somewhat old - buggy, buggy cd writer software).
So Linux is kind of amateurish by comparison. In fact, I only installed Ubuntu because my wife needs some Flash stuff, and I wanted to run Maple, but I ordered a FreeBSD cd (I ran OpenBSD once and it worked like a charm, but had little software).