Google switching to Solaris?!

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Friday 22 September 2006 02:53, Net Llama! wrote:
>> Or you could just install your favorite linux distro and
>> effectively get the same functionality with 90% less pain & suffering.
> Agreed!  Solaris is really weak on packaging.  Think Red Hat packaging 8 years
> ago...  OpenSolaris could really benefit from their maintainers strapping
> something like APT on to it.

Actually, think Solaris  :)
The Solaris packaging format is actually quite similar to Slackware in a 
lot of ways.  Make what you like of that.

>
> Usability as a Linux guy?  Let's just say that the hallways must be made for
> midgets, because I *KEEP BANGING MY HEAD ON THINGS*
> No, I'm not frustrated... really I'm not.
>
> From an ASM level, Solaris/x86 is an intriguing beast, but many of you
> probably don't care about the stack being lower in virtual memory than
> the .text segment.

Pretty much.  Sun still hasn't realized that other than the server folks, 
no one cares about this stuff.

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