phreaks wrote:Not trying to hijack this thread, but it got me wondering...
Since Solaris is now free, why aren't people using it in-place of various linux distros?
Is *nix generally thought of as being *better* than Solaris 10?
Of course Solaris 10 is a *nix...
I've played with OpenSolaris in a virtual machine (enough to verify I could deploy my rails web app, including all it's image manipulation and API libraries), and to be honest for non-full time sysadmins, it's not that compelling.
For those of us who run web/database/*nix based application servers, then dtrace and zones are definitely interesing, but then at my work we're still running on RHEL, because it works and (for us) it works well. (Except my PABX servers, they run Debian)
For personal stuff I still greatly prefer the wonderful package management system in Debian. OpenSolaris is getting better, but has nowhere near the breadth of packages available.
