I think I can answer a few of Tom's questions. Sun Ray is available on JDS2 linux (I use it every day.) I'm pretty sure Johnathon runs linux and Solaris on his laptop as do many of us. You won't find many Windows laptops used for work in Sun. There are a few Apples but many of them are running linux and I can think of only two MS Windows PCs in the hundreds of desktops at our site. Some employees who work directly with customers also run Windows on laptops.

We're often too busy making products or supporting customers to be active on all mailing lists and no it isn't a conspiracy that many Sun employees are on opensolaris.org. We're just some of the earliest to recognize that Solaris still has significant advantages in stability, scalability, instrumentation, security...

Sun has considerable linux expertise, especially higher levels of the GNU stack. And Solaris expertise is most certainly transferable to Linux. The fact that Linux is a different unix flavor doesn't allow it to reliably access resources outside of a semaphore (console.c), nor can it magically ignore that a server could be a cluster (autofs/nfs). And whether your X server is sitting on Linux or Solaris, it really isn't a good idea to create and destroy pixmaps thousands of times a second (gtik2_applet2). If Tom hasn't looked at upper layers of the GNU stack through the magnifying glass of Dtrace, I would highly recommend it.

发表于 bnitz 在 2005年03月05日, 09:27 上午 CST #