Friday February 04, 2005 
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Friday February 04, 2005 If you haven't heard, Solaris is now Free so dust off that old pc in the closet and bring it back to life with Solaris 10 for x86.
I just rebuilt an old pentium III server running RedHat Fedora Core 3 and it flies. Boot time was cut in half and shut down in 5 seconds.
I just rebuilt an old pentium III server running RedHat Fedora Core 3 and it flies. Boot time was cut in half and shut down in 5 seconds.
The most awesome developer platform out there. True resource virtualization with zones and DTrace for hardcore performance tuning. Performance programming isn't what it used to be cheap memory and the availability of rapid application development tools. For those of us old enough to remember how to optimize memory allocation and read a stack trace DTrace is a huge step forward in program traceability.