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RE[3]: Could be worse
by unoengborg on Sun 31st Jan 2010 13:22 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Could be worse"
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I wouldn't say Solaris is slow on inventing new stuff, look at ZFS, zones, Crossbow, Dtrace, SMF, Live upgrade,..

Solaris and ZFS alone would make it worth wile switching from Linux to Solaris even on a low end file server. E.g. try to get verifiable backups from a software raid system in Linux even though this is possilble theoretically by combining lvm (for snapshots) and software raid, but the performance is not usable even to play with. Not to mention how much easier it is to replace a failing disk in ZFS compared to Linux software RAID.

Not to mention that ZFS will do windows file sharing without adding extra software like samba, just add a few extra moutn properties and you are done.

It will take a very long time before Linux comes even close to Solaris for serverside use. On the desktop Linux have a lead, but both of them are beaten by MacOS-X that is actually certified Unix. Given the rapid development of the OpenSolaris desktop I would say OpenSolaris is closing in on Linux. After all they both use the same desktop GUI toolkits, so the uer experience should be similar.

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