on 3-7-2008 5:44 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: > Andreas Pedersen wrote: >> I'm also interested into learning more about other system as well, my >> question is what should I take a closer look in Solaris? >> Things like why people choose Solaris over Linux. > > Solaris puts a lot of effort into maintaining backwards compatibility. > With Linux, things as fundamental as device names change routinely and > you often have to have to recompile things between versions. Centos is > pretty good about this within a major release, but the long support life > of those releases is an exception in the Linux world and you still find > big differences between the major release versions that don't always > maintain compatibility. > And the Sun server hardware was very good at what it did at the time. There wasn't any x-86 hardware that could touch it. Besides, nothing could burn through an IT budget like a couple of Sparc 20's. ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080307/4980f488/attachment-0005.sig>