alt Hacker NewsSolaris was worse than Linux, and SPARC was worse than Intel. A lot worse.
Even ZFS was way better integrated with the Linux kernel even while Solaris was supposedly maintained.
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compiler-guy • today at 4:05 PM
The linux kernel didn't even gain SMP until 1996. Solaris was running circles around it both before and after that point. Solaris was vastly more mature and stable.
Of course, after that, Solaris just kept running in very expensive circles while linux went on to make steady progress.
toolslive • today at 4:32 PM
it was called "Slow arse". This was because it was rather reluctant in handing out resources (memory fe). Having fought it, I remember the system APIs being really well defined and picky (which was good). At one point, the C compiler had some identity issues "am I 32 bit, or 64 bit?"
Not in 2000, at my employer back then, our Linux server was only good as MP3 storage exposed via Samba/NFS.
All development and production deployments was being done across Solaris, Aix and HP-UX in regards to UNIX flavours.