The thing that has always impressed me about Solaris is its well-roundedness. Not the user-environment, which compares badly to typical linux and BSD setups (sv

The thing that has always impressed me about Solaris is its well-roundedness. Not the user-environment, which compares badly to typical linux and BSD setups (svrV vs BSD kludge; standard install lacks lots of useful tools; dev tools and libraries less likely to have support). Rather, the mechanisms that bind it to the hardware, and allow you to do types of control and monitoring that aren't feasible with linux/freebsd stuff. Solaris has had that close-to-the-hardware advantage.