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Thouroughly enjoyed working with Sun and Solaris back in the day, but I don't follow your logic. > years upon years of enterprise use at scale with a support o

• panick21_ 4y ago
  Linux evolves really fast and in an unplanned chaotic way. So it partly applies to linux for sure but there are also forces in other directions. Also, linux isn't an OS, its a kernel. The OS is built out of bits and pieces of open source software flying around. With Solaris you get a kernel and a user-land portion of the OS in one package designed together and for each other.
  • cyberpunk 4y ago
    I’ve heard this argument for years but come on how many Linux systems do you have in prod where awk isn’t gawk, sed isn’t gsed, libc isn’t glibc (okay, alpine with musl has a bit of market for containers). I think the Linux userland is pretty much identical across the distros and tbh I only deploy Ubuntu server when we need Linux vms anymore.
    • panick21_ 4y ago
      Yeah but for a long time there were many different init systems. There are different packaging systems. There are a huge amount of difference above the very basic tools. And I didn't say Linux was bad or anything, its just that there are a lot of hands in the pudding, both in the kernel and in the users space.
    • yakubin 4y ago
      > how many Linux systems do you have in prod where awk isn’t gawk All default Ubuntu installs? Maybe also Debian, I’m not sure.