Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

[David Strauss]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:41 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> David Strauss wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:19 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> Did you check the sun.com website which claims that Solaris 10 is the
> >> most advanced OS on the planet? Could anyone tell me what grounds is
> >> the claim based upon. I was surprised to see that claim and has anyone
> >> out there used it to testify on its truthfullness? Are there many such
> >> claims? Thanks...
> >> 
> > 
> > Solaris has many enterprise-grade features that Linux and other UNIX or
> > UNIX-like OSes still lack. One that immediately comes to mind is the
> > ability to pause and encapsulate a process, move it to a different
> > computer, then continue running it. That's useful for load-balancing and
> > managing server cluster hardware and software.
> 
> That's hardly unique.  Not enough, in itself, to make it the "Most Advanced
> OS".

Hence why I said it was only one feature that came to mind. It's far
from the only one. Stop reading my posts with the mindset "naming one
thing means there's only one thing" and you'll be on the right track.

And hardly unique? Name another operating system that supports process
portability without tons of hardware support (think IBM zSeries).

-- 
David Strauss <ubuntu at david.endeavorcomputing.com>