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2005-11-20
sunspot - waiting for scla
When I chose to have Solaris for w2100z earlier this year I thought I could soon have my cake and eat it: stable OS and a few necessary binaries from linux until native binaries become available. I am now thinking about installing the flavor-of-the-month linux, ubuntu, because I am tired of fighting with gnuism and linuxism and often losing. Had Sun really wanted to lure Linux users to try out Solaris 10 x86, they'd have put out "Solaris Containers for Linux Applications" from Day One. Sun has been promoting it for a few years now, hasn't it?
I see that SCLA may finally appear in OpenSolaris by the end of this year. When will it show up as Solaris 10 update? 01/06 MU? And how well will it work? I found lxrun's partial support for clone() a non-starter. I just tried Solaris Express to try out BrandX preview on a spare machine but it didn't work (something wrong with display).
Zones, ZFS, Dtrace are all impressive but for everyday work I'd rather take Linux compatibility first.
At 12:11 by Jay 
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