Google switching to Solaris?!

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 09:25 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is it the pkgadd system?

yup

>
>>> 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.
>
> My biggest interest would be network latency and then general kernel to
> process latency. Any feelings for that compared to a, say, 2.6.16 Linux
> kernel?

I've never done any real testing of [Open]Solaris in that regard, so I 
can't comment.

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