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What vendor lock in are you refrering to?

I have not seen a modern piece of software that runs on OpenSolaris that can't be compiled for Linux also. "

Mate, obviously you seem to have issues finding code or reading sentences. He has said that by OpenSolaris existing it stops vendor lock in. That vendor lock in being software written in the opensource world that only compiles on Linux. Want proof? go grab a generic wine tarball and try to compile it on OpenSolaris out of the box - it won't compile.

Lame, up until decently, same situation - it didn't compile unless you used patches (3.98beta8 works without patching). Code is still being locked into specific operating systems - even when that code is opensource. Programmers using Linuxisms, gcc'isms and any other possible ism I might have forgotten.

As for the value of OpenSolaris, it is nice to do something CPU intensive and not find that it is impossible to surf the internet because the network connection dies. Yes, I've had happen with Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora - its pathetic; are we supposed to believe that in 2008 one shouldn't multitask?

I have admined about 80 Fedora, CentOS, and Ubuntu boxes of widely varying harware configs and OS versions for some years now, and I call bullshit on that one. I have never observed such a problem.

I did not bother with the ¨DOA¨ article, and I´ll take your word for it that it was bad. But that is no reason to start gratuitously talking baseless trash about Linux.

Umm.... I love blanket statements with no real numbers to back them up.
Currently, the destop that's being used to post this message is running boinc (180% CPU), two vmware virtual machines (one is checking for updates), email client, firefox, large number of VI's and being used as a file and printer server for my wife's desktop.
.... And this is a mid-end Athlon64 5000X2 machine; The dual DC Opteron that sits next to is far more busy.

- Gilboa

Edited 2008-05-07 04:06 UTC

"As for the value of OpenSolaris, it is nice to do something CPU intensive and not find that it is impossible to surf the internet because the network connection dies."

Maybe you shouldn't run your IE in Wine as root, pal

That vendor lock in being software written in the opensource world that only compiles on Linux. Want proof? go grab a generic wine tarball and try to compile it on OpenSolaris out of the box - it won't compile.

Lame, up until decently, same situation - it didn't compile unless you used patches (3.98beta8 works without patching). Code is still being locked into specific operating systems - even when that code is opensource. Programmers using Linuxisms, gcc'isms and any other possible ism I might have forgotten.

Wow, is this a straw man argument or what :O You do realize that it's open code and it just might not compile on a new platform out-of-the-box unless someone has taken the time to test and make it work? And well, talking about wine..it works on SkyOS, Windows, Linux, BSDs...so, what were you saying about vendor lock-in?

As for the value of OpenSolaris, it is nice to do something CPU intensive and not find that it is impossible to surf the internet because the network connection dies. Yes, I've had happen with Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora - its pathetic; are we supposed to believe that in 2008 one shouldn't multitask?

As others have already said, it seems no one believes what you have written here. And neither do I. I'm not saying it's not possible...but heck, I have never come across such issues. And believe me, compiling things like FireFox on a Athlon 1ghz IS CPU intensive yet network connection never died and it was still very much possible to multitask. I don't own a single multicore machine yet multitasking has always worked just fine, no matter if I've had Blender rendering in the background, compiling stuff, backing up the system or anything such.