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Solaris and Linux system information.
Post 302156338 by sad_angle on Monday 7th of January 2008 10:50:34 PM
01-07-2008
This is Hardware comparison, not OS
I think that you need to compare hardware on the structure and micron level.
Xeon Woodcrest Preys On Opteron | Tom's Hardware
ftp://download.intel.com/design/Xeon...s/25039702.pdf.
Then build an idea about how UNIX systems are put together. (well put together)
Unix File System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UNIX: System Design
Only then you can really give Solaris two thumbs up for Sparc/AMD hardware, and the same for Linux on x86, but not vice versa.
My personal history installing Linux Red Hat on Sparc ( and others like me who tried) is being disappointed at the lack of Linux drivers for SUN hardware. SUN still holds many of the Hardware design architecture proprietary. Thus giving you hard time with retrieval and display of data from and to I/O devices.
Great Raptor display cards, RPC units, SUN sound cards, and most importantly, the Oil fields equipment like quake sensors, ultra sound devices, and chemical analysis devices, fail to work with Linux, While SUN has given Solaris full armies of software drivers and applications for them.
Example; A few months ago an architecture firm requested me to check the possibility of migrating from SUN to Linux on their production line. They had pressure measuring devices that presses concrete cubes at 15, 28, 45, 60 days, until it cracks, giving the green or red light for a highway or a bridge to open or rebuild. I installed Linux on one of the hot swap drives, to find that Linux probed the massive hydraulic machines and installed them as a Xerox printers
. Calling the manufacturer Siemens® for hours and days to get the design of the circuit boards and internal OS data resulted in a dead end, as they have signed a deal with SUN to keep those kinds of machines internals proprietary. The suggestion to use the SUN CD driver that came with the machine as a platform to hack a new driver was not welcome at all, due to legal ramifications.
I think it depends on your industry.
If you are an ISP, Telecom, Education, Stock market & Financial, CAD Design (innovation of the individual is the core of the industry) go with Linux on x86.
If you are Oil, Chemicals, Conveyor belt, Health care labs, construction measurements (the machine is the industry's back bone) go with Solaris on Sparc/AMD.
Still, this is a humble personal point of view. I might be wrong.
Xeon Woodcrest Preys On Opteron | Tom's Hardware
ftp://download.intel.com/design/Xeon...s/25039702.pdf.
Then build an idea about how UNIX systems are put together. (well put together)
Unix File System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UNIX: System Design
Only then you can really give Solaris two thumbs up for Sparc/AMD hardware, and the same for Linux on x86, but not vice versa.
My personal history installing Linux Red Hat on Sparc ( and others like me who tried) is being disappointed at the lack of Linux drivers for SUN hardware. SUN still holds many of the Hardware design architecture proprietary. Thus giving you hard time with retrieval and display of data from and to I/O devices.
Great Raptor display cards, RPC units, SUN sound cards, and most importantly, the Oil fields equipment like quake sensors, ultra sound devices, and chemical analysis devices, fail to work with Linux, While SUN has given Solaris full armies of software drivers and applications for them.
Example; A few months ago an architecture firm requested me to check the possibility of migrating from SUN to Linux on their production line. They had pressure measuring devices that presses concrete cubes at 15, 28, 45, 60 days, until it cracks, giving the green or red light for a highway or a bridge to open or rebuild. I installed Linux on one of the hot swap drives, to find that Linux probed the massive hydraulic machines and installed them as a Xerox printers
. Calling the manufacturer Siemens® for hours and days to get the design of the circuit boards and internal OS data resulted in a dead end, as they have signed a deal with SUN to keep those kinds of machines internals proprietary. The suggestion to use the SUN CD driver that came with the machine as a platform to hack a new driver was not welcome at all, due to legal ramifications. I think it depends on your industry.
If you are an ISP, Telecom, Education, Stock market & Financial, CAD Design (innovation of the individual is the core of the industry) go with Linux on x86.
If you are Oil, Chemicals, Conveyor belt, Health care labs, construction measurements (the machine is the industry's back bone) go with Solaris on Sparc/AMD.
Still, this is a humble personal point of view. I might be wrong.
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lx(5) Standards, Environments, and Macros lx(5) NAME
lx - Linux branded zone DESCRIPTION
The lx brand uses the branded zones framework described in brands(5) to enable Linux binary applications to run unmodified on a machine with a Solaris Operating System kernel. The lx brand includes the tools necessary to install a CentOS 3.x or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x distribution inside a non-global zone. The brand supports the execution of 32-bit Linux applications on x86/x64 machines running the Solaris system in either 32-bit or 64-bit mode. Supported Linux Distributions The lx brand emulates the system call interfaces provided by the Linux 2.4.21 kernel, as modified by Red Hat in the RHEL 3.x distributions. This kernel provides the system call interfaces consumed by the glibc version 2.3.2 released by Red Hat. In addition, the lx brand partially emulates the Linux /dev and /proc interfaces. Configuration and Administration The lx brand supports the whole root non-global zone model. All of the required linux packages are installed into the private file systems of the zone. The zonecfg(1M) utility is used to configure an lx branded zone. Once a branded zone has been installed, that zone's brand cannot be changed or removed. The zoneadm(1M) utility is used to report the zone's brand type and administer the zone. The zlogin(1) utility is used to log in to the zone. Application Support The lx zone only supports user-level Linux applications. You cannot use Linux device drivers, Linux kernel modules, or Linux file systems from inside an lx zone. You cannot add any non-standard Solaris devices to a Linux zone. Any attempt to do so will result in a zone that zonecfg(1M) will refuse to verify. You cannot run Solaris applications inside an lx zone. Solaris debugging tools such as DTrace (see dtrace(1M)) and mdb (see mdb(1)) can be applied to Linux processes executing inside the zone, but the tools themselves must be running in the global zone. Any core files generated are produced in the Solaris format, and such files can only be debugged with Solaris tools. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWlxr, SUNWlxu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
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