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by Daniel Berger.
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So, yea. The GNU userland is killing the Solaris userland and all the other userlands, as planned. Linux gets a lot of credit for being a catalyst for that but GNU is extremely portable, feature rich, and well designed.
Yep, Linux is great, right up to the part where you have to do any heavy lifting. Remember Theo Schlossnagle's Big Bad PostgreSQL talk? Take a look at pages 9 and 10 on that PDF, where Theo explains that they originally tried to deploy on Linux. In short, 20 outages in 4 months caused by Kernel panics, the filesystem randomly remounting itself read-only, lack of snapshots and clunky LVM support
We see the same sorts of things here at $WORK, especially with Samba and Oracle, on our RHEL boxes. Suck.
As for "userland", perhaps Ryan is referring to the desktop space only. True, Linux defeats Solaris here, but then so does just about every other OS out there, and Linux still lags way behind Windows and OS X.
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