On Mon, 8 May 2006, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> What I would love to hear the Expert's opinions on is this: Why
> Solaris? FPGA software (And indeed other stuff as well) runs only on
> Solaris, or prefers it to Linux. That seems to point to some advantage
> for high end computing.
I'm not sure why that would that be 'high-end computing'. I'd speculate
this example would be more down to application vendors, perceiving
Solaris as 'easier' to target, e.g. because:
- No 'distro fragmentation', far fewer versions to have to try support
- Stability levels of interfaces are:
a) generally documented
- in man page(s) for the API or interface concerned
- see the 'attributes' man page for explanation of
the various stability levels
b) well respected
regards,
--
Paul Jakma,
Network Approachability, KISS. Sun Microsystems, Dublin, Ireland.
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