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ZFS why not opensolaris?

It's open source, better hardware support, better future (nobody knows what will happen to opensolaris over the next few years now that Oracle owns it, a company known for buying up a competitor to kill the product).

Now as for reasons people might prefer opensolaris? kernel level CIFS and newer zfs implementation.
 
novadude said:
It's open source, better hardware support, better future (nobody knows what will happen to opensolaris over the next few years now that Oracle owns it, a company known for buying up a competitor to kill the product).

Now as for reasons people might prefer opensolaris? kernel level CIFS and newer zfs implementation.
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+1

I am strongly considering moving away from opensolaris towards FreeBSD due to the unknown future of OS and getting locked into something that turns out being a coffin.

I will be able to give some complex comparisons if/when i move over to BSD.

Also the OS iSCSI is a joke.
 
Kritter said:
Just wondering why people prefer freebsd over opensolaris.
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In my case, since we're talking client (not server) usage, I prefer OpenSolaris over FreeBSD (but in my case, I'm referring to the KDE4-based fork of OpenSolaris) because of driver (hardware) support (GPU support in particular). FOSS support of AMD's 5xxx GPUs isn't there for anybody yet (therefore so much for Linux or BSD), and FreeBSD has issues with nForce 6xx chipsets, so my choices are either Linux or OpenSolaris (and Linux doesn't do ZFS yet).
 
I'm actually a bit of a fan of OpenSolaris over FreeBSD. I also don't think OpenSolaris will kick the bucket anytime soon.

First of all, there are a few years that Oracle needs to keep it around to appease all of the Sun support contracts.
Second, I think people forget that MySQL is an Oracle product now. Oracle sells a (somewhat) overlapping product in their Oracle DB software. Yet, MySQL support was not pulled. You could make distinctions between that case and others, but if Oracle keeps OpenSolaris alive, they keep a very high-margin business alive (support) while killing the OS gives them 0 revenue and 0 additional market share.

I could be totally wrong, but OpenSolaris will probably last longer than a SATA disk warranty at this point.
 
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