Is Solaris 10 the new Linux?

Posted by Christopher Smith Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:25:00 GMT

I don’t think so, but I have to admit that lately I’ve been having a hard time coming up with reasons for me to use Linux instead of Solaris 10 beyond “I know the technical underpinnings of Linux better” (which admittedly is a very good reason, but one that wouldn’t exactly be there for everyone).

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  1. Asheesh Laroia 24 days later:

    Have you heard of Nexenta? It’s an Ubuntu userland paired with a Solaris kernel.

    I think it’s a great platform for trying out OpenSolaris when you just don’t want to deal with all the annoyances of a real Solaris install. You get zones, ZFS, dtrace, you name it. (-:

    http://www.gnusolaris.org/ is its home page.

  2. Christopher Smith 24 days later:

    Yes, I’ve been looking at Nexenta because they have a VMware image. It looks like it’s not 100% yet, but it is getting there. Thanks for mentioning it though.

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