Sun's Linux Killer Examined

gnaremooz is one of several users to mention Thomas Greene's look at Sun's supposed 'Linux Killer'. From the article: "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." However, he goes on to describe many more difficulties with an install of Solaris than I seem to remember having with just about any recent Linux install.

Its not windows

[Anonymous Coward]

So no one cares.

Slow down cowboy! its been 854965369432965 seconds since you hit reply! Our code sucks ass!

Re:Better luck next time

[fsterman]

Exccpt teh BDS's

Last Solaris I admined...

[scorp1us]

Not all the keys on the keyboard worked after (or during an install). For what you pay, all the keys should work from the get-go! Linux does! ANd I'm talking basis keys - home, end, I think backspace/delet to some degree and the like.

Re:one minor issue

[UnixRawks]

Yes you cheap bastard!

Re:Better luck next time

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't kill something that's non-commercial

My neighbor's cat was non-commercial...

Re:Let me guess: it has Java!

[EvilMonkeySlayer]

Amiga is life, don't you dare act all superior!

We may lack hardware support, modern operating system features, people liking us but at least we have... hmm, at least we have...

So, remember! Amiga OS is better in every conceivable way!

Re:Let me guess: it has Java!

[gardyloo]

We may lack hardware support, modern operating system features, people liking us but at least we have... hmm, at least we have...

      Huuuuge... tracts of land?

Re:The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

[PaxTech]

I agree, Solaris is clearly the desktop operating system of tomorrow!

And it always will be.

Re:unbelievable

[Otter]

It's a "Linux killer" in the sense that Evolution was hyped for years as the "Outlook killer" and Rhythmbox is now the "iTunes killer".

"Killer" just means "70% of the features and sort of works"...

Re:Let me guess: it has Java!

[inspector_grim]

I just spent the last two weeks in hell at work trying to install, configure and use Solaris10/x86 (yes it is free to stuff around with at least: go here and download or order a media pack: http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/g et.xml [sun.com]

I may be very rusty but I used to be a pretty hardcore SUN admin person and I was completely screwed: I found the documentation to be the worst kind of useless toilet paper.

Just one pieve: SUN seem very confused about what kind of admin gui they really want: Swing, command line or web portal: for historical reasons they have them all... good luck !

Going back to WinFriggen2K was a RELIEF... my idiot big button installers where all back. (for instance: compare the simplicity of installing a win32 service versus a service on SUN properly). The Java Desktop is very pretty though.