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Re: E&M seminar was today
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> Fortunately (for me), I had to work with Solaris for *only* a week or so. It
> gave me a feeling of a very bad and disorganized Linux distribution. All the
> config files had the wrong names and were in the wrong paths, the GUI sucked,
> and most of the usual utilities were missing ...
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Hey, we are going to begin flame war here, but who cares ? :-)
It's anyway better then tons of mailpush stuff :-)
Solaris ( especcialy Solaris for Sparc ) is VERY GOOD operation system.
Is it better that linux is hard and very interesting question, but
it's very good. AIX sucks - it's even not UNIX, there no "normal"
configuration files and all the configuration seets in special
datbases ( sounds familar ? <g> ) . HP-UX sucks even more - it
like taking most of AIX bad thing without adding anything good
and the hardware is very expensive. Digital ( should I call
it Compaq ) Unix was so ugly that Digital put a lot money
and people to port Linux to Alphas. To be right - Digital Unix
is probably only brand-name unix that's still BSD'ish . Its
just strange. We wouldn't talk about SCO - linux sco binary
emulation runs sco binaries as fast as x5 from original SCO :-).
SGI's aren't bad in case you're want spent megabucks in
VERY GOOD video/audio hardware. After buying cray they even
have very good scalability.
Ok, so let's see what wrong with solaris.
1. It's kinda slow. Anyway slower that linux .
2. It's not open-source (yet ? ) and not coming
with all that nice freeware soft, but one visit
to sunfreeware.com and you'll get lot's of it .
3. It has no nice GUI for configuration - but it's
VERY good - you always can change what you want
in case you're smart enought to know where to
search.
What is good :
1. Very nice scalability that isn't costs too many .
2. Fully dinamic kernel and very good hot-spot
devices compatability
3. Lots of commercial software
4. Very nice and smart bootprom .
...
ther're lot.
Just be sure - I'm big Linux fan, but please don't call
Solaris "bad" .
Meir