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- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Didn't they do this about a year ago? They seems to have warmed up to their sworn rival RHEL (Cent OS)though, not just Canonical and Ubuntu.
- chumpsucker, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Yes, having an operating environment with some flexibility will help out once in a while...
- chumpsucker, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8This could be a serious boon to Linux "penetration" in the Enterprise. At my employer, in our data center, it's Solaris or the highway right now. This could do wonders for my job satisfaction.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Sun aren't becoming a software company. They give all their software away and have committed to opening the lot.
- ronin691, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Solaris containers are a god send, and now I can monkey virtualized Linux inside them. Thank you Sun!!!!
- Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Finally!
I frequently deal with both while working and this will make my job easier. - tpink, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3What do you think runs on VMware? VMware by itself is useless. Also, Solaris containers are not the same thing as virtualization. It's more like a Linux VServer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VServer - motang, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Virtualization is the future. This is great news, and with time virtualization will get better and better.
- kildurin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They are. They now have very easy methods to port Linux drivers to Solaris. T2000 rules BTW.
- chumpsucker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Which is the point of having a prudent test plan. Even commercial software updates break things.... Windows XP Service Pack 2 ring any bells?
- alpha754293, on 10/28/2007, -1/+3They HAVE streamlined the native Linux support quite a bit (and also actually tell you how to get it up and running).
Interestingly enough, I don't see ANYBODY here saying ANYTHING about Solaris on Linux (rather than Linux on Solaris). Considering that Solaris is a highly scalable computing platform, and that ZFS has won many many awards (and admirers) (not to mention that they're also first to be shipping systems in a shipping container (container included - see Project Blackbox)). I have a Sun Fire X4200, and with a SINGLE Fujitsu 73 GB 2.5" SAS drive, I can sustain 105 MB/s write speeds (overdriving the GbE by 5% WHILE running Windows - which we all know has tremendous network overhead - the slowest of the OSes I've installed.) The system is blazing fast. Solaris is blazing fast (IF you know how to use it). But don't take it from me (15 years+ experience). Try it for yourself.
(Also admittedly, the biggest "plague" of Solaris is STILL the lack of driver support). Not entirely sure IF they'll EVER fix that.... - chumpsucker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Its not for lack of trying that we continue to use solaris... there are "buy in" issues...
- tnoy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Its all fine and dandy, until it breaks something.
- ikesauto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Must work in Florida
- ratsg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You can also run linux in Xen with a Solaris hypervisor on X86 systems. Domains on big systems (E15K or E25K) and LDoms on Coolthreads (Sun4V) servers.
- AoSDFA, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This has been brewing in the Community version of SunOS for a year. Sun takes the source tree from the Open Solaris community and packages it as their corporate-sold and -serviced Solaris 10 every so often.
The linux containers are pretty cool. I have several running right now. The only downside is they don't support Linux 2.6 yet, so if you need that specific kernel you're SOL for now. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I'm convinced this company is great. They offer a ton of stuff for startups at a huge discount (http://www.sun.com/emrkt/startupessentials/) as well as being active in training and helping young companies get off the ground for free (http://startupcamp.org/). Mad props to breaking the barrier!!
- diot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1They are talking about LDOMS (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/ldoms/) and not zones as the article makes it seem.
- swede67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I believe they're talking about branded zones, not LDoms:
http://www.virtualization.info/2007/09/release-sun-solaris-containers-for.html - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The Linux guys are already doing this. It will never be brilliant though, what they are doing is using OGL to implement a 3D virtualised graphics card. It is then up to the hosts OGL implementation to decide how best to go about putting it out through your graphics card.
It isn't raw access but should give you much better results than current systems. - OrangeTide, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Been doing this for many years on MacOnLinux. What's your point?
- sancho, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Call me when any virtualization product can get raw access to my video card.
Anyway, it's really old technology. It's only "news" because it's now in consumer PCs. - BrainInAJar, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4having less features & an unstandardized moving target to deal with will increase your job satisfaction?
- captmorgan555, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Solaris is designed to keep the sys admin in demand...imo.
Oh, VMWARE FTW!
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