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What Sun got wrong

692 points · 437 comments · chmaynard

  1. flanked-evergl · · focus · HN ↗
    Solaris 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.

    1. pjmlp · · focus · HN ↗
      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.

      1. jeffbee · · focus · HN ↗
        At my employer in 1999 we were maintaining home-grown binary modification to the Solaris kernel so that TCP segment send and receive were not O(N^2) where N was the number of addresses on the interface :-/ It was, as far as I could tell, an operating system that nobody had ever tried to use before. For anything where we could avoid Sun we used FreeBSD. One of the nice things about the free Unixes of that time was that process and thread creation or destruction were orders of magnitude faster than on Sun. To me, Sun was obviously in a lower category than Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD.
        1. icedchai · · focus · HN ↗
          The "Slowaris" nickname was there for a reason.
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