Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 10, 2005 08:22 PM
GPL is total and complete bullshit. CDDL is just fine for what is needed by Sun and OpenSolaris.
Anyways, HW support in (Open)Solaris on x86 and x64 is very, very good and it's getting to be almost as WindowsXP. Don't believe me? Try it out for yourself!
I went to the store the other day to buy a vulgaris GigE network kit and the company that makes the NICs supports Solaris with native packages.
I bought a bare bones ASUS server and the NIC drivers, also native Solaris packages, were included right on the CD! And I didn't even need them, because Solaris10 *just worked* and recognized *everything* on that machine.
Sun kernel engineers have implemented Intel's ACPI interpreter, so Solaris is now pretty much the only Operating Environment out there with the greatest-and-latest, state of the art ACPI support.
So statements that claim Solaris HW support is poor are just complete and utter FUD and bullshit.
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Re:Given GNU/Linux and *BSD, what's the point?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 10, 2005 08:22 PMAnyways, HW support in (Open)Solaris on x86 and x64 is very, very good and it's getting to be almost as WindowsXP. Don't believe me? Try it out for yourself!
I went to the store the other day to buy a vulgaris GigE network kit and the company that makes the NICs supports Solaris with native packages.
I bought a bare bones ASUS server and the NIC drivers, also native Solaris packages, were included right on the CD! And I didn't even need them, because Solaris10 *just worked* and recognized *everything* on that machine.
Sun kernel engineers have implemented Intel's ACPI interpreter, so Solaris is now pretty much the only Operating Environment out there with the greatest-and-latest, state of the art ACPI support.
So statements that claim Solaris HW support is poor are just complete and utter FUD and bullshit.
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