On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:23:22AM +0000, Brian Wood wrote: > > 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 also liked the C/C++ diagnostics from the Intel C++ compiler. There is a 30 days evaluation version, after which is $700. > > 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. Be careful and ask lots of questions and only buy what people say they have working already. Best, florin -- Sent from my other microwave oven. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130320/36feda01/attachment.pgp>