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Mittwoch August 17, 2005

Interesting Solaris 10 feedback
I don't like the headline of this article (because I think of competition in the sense of a sports event, not war), but I think the feedback is very interesting anyway:

"DTrace can reveal a tremendous amount of data about the system and applications, yet it can be fine tuned to provide information relevant only to the particular processes one wishes to examine, putting it well beyond anything available for Linux, such as Kprobes, Dprobes, or DTT. Currently, DTrace is a command-line tool, although there is talk of creating a GUI front end.

Solaris containers (aka 'zones') are also noteworthy. They're virtual environments a bit like BSD jails, only slicker. Each container looks and feels like an isolated, virtual instance of the kernel, yet when idle, one container will use about 0.5 per cent of system resources, and fifty idle containers use about five per cent."
( Aug 17 2005, 11:21:19 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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I agree with the comments on the title. I think it's valid to see Solaris 10 as a competitor to Red Hat and or Novell/SuSE, but it's incorrect to say Sun is trying to compete with "Linux", unless you really stretch the definition. Sun contributes to Linux and other GNU projects!

Gesendet von Matt Ingenthron am August 17, 2005 at 04:45 PM CEST #

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