DaveM has a massive boulder on his shoulder

One of my #opensolaris mates pointed me to DaveM’s blogrant in response to Jeff Bonwick’s reflective entry.DaveM reckoned Jeff’s entry was full of anti-Linux fud.I disagree.If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.Of course, I’m biased – I work on, with and inside Solaris every day. I have done since 1999 for Sun, and before that as a customer.What I would dearly love to see is some expansive and forward thinking from people like DaveM. Dave – think about this: just because you and others have not seen Solaris running on a 1024-core or 1024-cpu system, does not necessarily mean that it hasn’t been done.Also, think about this when you rave about the Altix 1024-cpu box — is that running a stock-standard “as delivered by the OS vendor” kernel, or did you have to import changes to the main tree, compile them specially… and are you running common-or-garden software on that system? I don’t think you are.And you know what? That’s actually a good thing.Yes, you saw it here – a Solaris kernel developer praising linux. And why? Because one size does not fit all purposes. I am a very firm believer in choosing the right tool for the task at hand. For what Jeff is talking about (and yes, I am sorta in the loop for that), linux isn’t the right tool – Solaris is. For other applications of technology, linux is and Solaris isn’t.Get over yourself and keep making linux the best that it can be. Jeff and I will keep working on Solaris…. and with a little give+take our customers (they’re the ones who make it possible for us to indulge ourselves designing solutions for their problems) will choose both environments for the right purpose.`Technorati`_ tags: topic:{Technorati}[OpenSolaris], topic:{Technorati}[linux], topic:{Technorati}[Jeff Bonwick], topic:{Technorati}[DaveM], topic:{Technorati}[Coopetition]