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Could someone here make a description of what obvious gains one could have by moving a linux-based server (let's say ubuntu) hosting a regular web service & db
by bsaul 12y ago
Could someone here make a description of what obvious gains one could have by moving a linux-based server (let's say ubuntu) hosting a regular web service & db to illumos ?
Would i gain performance ? Would it let me backup my server more easily ? Make the stack easier to shard ? Be less prone to security issues ? Etc.
- alrs 12y agoUsed to be that x86 Solaris was referred to as "Slowaris." edit: It wasn't?
- scarmig 12y agoIt may or may not be worth your while, though I'd guess no, if you don't have the time to learn a new system and its capabilities. That said, Linux lags in many very useful features. It's only recently gotten a usable OS-virtualization solution (containers/Docker), while Solaris/illumos (and FreeBSD, for that matter) have had versions of it production ready for over a decade. Tracing on Linux is a pale shadow of DTrace--which bcantrill among others built a decade ago, and which has been available on the BSDs and Mac OSX for the better part of the decade since. ZFS, which many would argue is standing king of file systems, has been battle-tested on Solaris/illumos and FreeBSD for years, while licensing issues prevent it from being included as part of Linux. The file system that btrfs is meant to be better than is ZFS, a goal it's still seeking. Of course, as far as it goes, Linux is good enough to get by. But once you've worked with a more fully-featured OS, you find yourself thinking wistfully of them.