Florin Iucha writes: > > Dtrace is a better system performance evaluation tool, and that's > about the only thing that *Solaris has 'better' than Linux at this > point. The Sun^WOracle Studio C/C++ compilers runs just fine under > Linux as well, if you need second set of diagnostics (it usually helps > to keep code clean and portable). > I agree that using multiple toolsets is helpful. Linux/G++ is my favorite. I've used Windows and Visual Studio as a secondary toolset for a number of years and have been surprised that it has helped me find 3 or more problems that I wasn't finding with Linux/G++. Recently I installed clang on Linux and it helped me find an error (repeated in 4 places) that the other two had been missing. > I used to run it in a KVM virtual machine, just for testing purposes. > I tried to run it on bare metal, but the lack of hardware support > reminds me of Linux circa '97. Case in point, I have motherboard > (EVGA with dual onboard Gigabit 3COM/Marvell controllers) that Linux > runs smoothly on. Solaris works as well, and even has driver for the > family of NICs that include my particular model, but my NICs PCI ids > are blacklisted due to some bug that was sitting in a bugzilla for two > years. It did not reach critical mass with enthusiasts so it does > have a bleak future for hobbyists. > > OpenSolaris is slowly becoming like MacOS - it only runs on certain > hardware configurations. The 'uber' UNIX hackers at Sun wanted to > keep all the goodness for themselves... now, they can have it, since > nobody else can run it, should they want to. The *BSDs have much > better hardware support. > Hmm. Yeah, I hear about dtrace and am interested in that. Heard a little about it being ported to Linux, but haven't checked into that. Your point about hardware though might not matter to me other than it being a limiting factor in terms of what I'd buy. If there remains some "goodness" to Solaris that might be what I need since this is for my datacenter. I posted your answer to the C++ thread and maybe the pro-Solaris guy there will reply. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises - in G-d we trust. http://webEbenezer.net (651) 251-9384 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130321/7bce3ced/attachment-0001.html>