OpenSolaris – The Better OS
So you are Linux Demigod? Have you seen OpenSolaris. What other OS can you plop on a lowly PC and scale it to more than 128 processors running multiple cores. It can run Linux code, virtualize itself or other OS’s, removes the painful init.d and it’s start/stop scripts, has a kernel tracing system called Dtrace that plops exception probes right in a running kernel, has a far superior kernel thread mechanism than anything out there, and it enjoys the benefits of ZFS: Zettabyte File System — a file system that can handle double bit parity RAID 10 or V, create backup snapshots, implement pools of cheap storage into aggregates of simple virtulized storage (why even go HW Raid?). And the finale: It is openSource!
Miscellaneous | Kenneth Mikelinich | June 15, 2009
linux, OpenSolaris, opensource, os, solaris, unix
How long before OpenSolaris becomes the preferred Oracle platform?
It historically was for many eons (epic time). Then came the Unbreakable Linux fad,which somehow took the spotlight away. Looks like some light is back on the venerable Solaris. Now, do we know if it will be a grow light?
The New England Open Solaris User Group (NEOSUG) Meeting
When: June 23rd, 2009 6:00PM to 9:00 PM
If anyone would like to join me from UNH let me know. I will be driving out to Burlington, MA around 5pm. You need to register with Linda Wendlandt [lwendlandt@cptech.com] first.