Open Solaris

[Mikael Hansson]

I sense a possible heated discussion here...so to cool it down a bit, I 
can tell you that it's currently -24°C outside here :)

The reason I considering OpenSolaris is that I've heard good things 
about ZFS regarding fileintegrity and that discencryption (through ZFS) 
are to be implemented this year.

Since there's so many important things (music, pics, homevideos, etc.) 
being stored digitally now I consider this the most important aspects.

/Micke

Jay Vaughan skrev:
>> It seems odd to me to stick to Linux, when there's so many people  
>> using
>> it, and as a consequence, you get a lot of people who don't really  
>> know
>> what they're doing. More information is not necessarily better  
>> information.
>>
>>     
>
> There are more Linux experts on music-bar than Solaris users.
>
>   
>> There's a substantial (Open)Solaris community, and as a rule, they're
>> very knowledgeable.
>>
>>     
>
> There are plenty of places to go to find knowledgeable and helpful  
> Linux users.
>
>   
>> FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux would probably do the job equally well, but
>> the former two have just a single distribution, and they're aimed at
>> doing server-y kind of things, in contrast to Linux which tries to be
>> everything for everyone.
>>     
>
>
> Not actually true - Linux *can* be a lot of things.  It can be a  
> fantastic disk server.  It can be an amazing Internet services host.   
> It can be a games machine.  It can be a DAW.  This is flexibility  
> beyond what OpenSolaris can attain, but it doesn't mean anything about  
> Linux' ability to serve for you.  For sure, Linux is better for a lot  
> of jobs than OpenSolaris, if you know what you're doing.  The days of  
> OpenSolaris are numbered, also.  It belongs to one of the biggest  
> douchebags in computing history, whereas Linux .. well .. doesn't.
>