Google switching to Solaris?!

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Myles Green wrote:
> 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.

OpenSolaris is basically the Solaris equivalent of FedoraCore for RHEL.
I was referring to both OpenSolaris (AKA Solaris 11) & Solaris 10.

>> 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.

Ahh, so its basically Sun Freeware + Open Solaris?

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