Google switching to Solaris?!

[Myles Green]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:36:26 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> You've never run it on a SPARC based system.  That's when the slowness 
> really shines.  I haven't found it to be significantly slower or faster
> on AMD64 systems.

No, never tried it on SPARC hardware. Are you speaking of Solaris 10 or
OpenSolaris? Note, I've not tried "plain" OpenSolaris myself.
 
> How is NexentaOS different than the OpenSOlaris ISO images?  Is it just 
> more packages, or are they rebuilding packages that Sun ships?  I'm
> asking because I've used OpenSolaris quite a lot lately, and was
> generally unimpressed.
 
Nexenta takes the SunOS kernel and runtime and drops the GNU tools / Ubuntu
(currently a mix of Dapper and Edgy) on top of it. Now, GPL flamewars
aside, the result is pretty impressive to take for a test-drive. Lonnie, I
would not waste your time telling you to try it if it wasn't an eye-opener
kind of experience.

Myles
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