Linux vs Solaris

[Christopher Browne]

On 6/8/07, Teddy Mills <teddymills-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I am definitely no expert, but what little I have used Solaris, it is
> some neat features, but lacking
> some major essentials!
>
> Torvalds is not impressed with the state of Solaris X86, dismissing it
> as a 'joke'  (his words)

That's somewhat curious.

The things that people have thus far described as "missing" in Solaris
are things that, from a "Torvalds perspective," aren't part of Linux
at all.  Notably, GNU binutils lives in userspace, and isn't part of
the project that Linus Torvalds manages.

For Torvalds to be critical of "userspace" issues when he isn't
involved in userspace for Linux seems richly ironic.

As OS kernel, Solaris isn't a joke.  There are some things (like zfs,
zones) that it does that Linux doesn't do all as well/as easily.

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