[ILUG] Re: Differences between Solaris and Linux

[Declan Moriarty]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:47 +0100, Marcus Furlong wrote:
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the details Albert. I for one will hoard that message for the
> > future.
> > 
> > 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've heard everyone knock the linux libc. Probably the most
> > outspoken is the author of cdrecord (Read his README!).
> 
> Read his last thread on lkml, it went on for more than a month..
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/165dee7552cb3bce

It's a small World. Jorg Schilling is the author/maintainer of cdrecord
that I mentioned in the question. He is obstinately pro Solaris and
anti-linux, much in the way Richard Dawkins is in the Evolution/Creation
debate. Mind you, beyond attacking the gnu OS (libc, make, configure) he
didn't show a better way.

They _do_ go on a lot on LMKL, don't they? How do they get time to write
software?
> 
> Some bits even reminded me of the flamefest this one came from..
> 
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-April/003417.html
> 

You know, it was said that the only difference between men & boys is the
size of their toys (as in playthings - no double meanings here)....

-- 
        With Best Regards,

        Declan Moriarty.