11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
10:51 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
2009/6/11 Zane H. Healy <healyzh at
aracnet.com>:
As a friend commented on my LJ:
"OpenSolaris is very much 1990s Unix being dragged kicking and
screaming into the present. Solaris 10 more or less managed this at
the command line, OpenSolaris is trying it for the desktop.
"Summary: if you're not a Solaris admin or programmer for a living,
you probably don't or shouldn't care. If you are, you'll love that bug
reports get comments from the programmers responsible explaining why
things are the way they are (e.g. why there's no kernel support for
SMB mounting)."
The Mac's at about 4-5% now, I believe. So a good 4x the penetration
of /desktop/ Linux. But Linux has very wide penetration in servers and
in embedded roles, which are very hard to count. I suspect the Mac is
still ahead on sheer numbers, though, if we're talking interactive
users. It's possible that millions of ADSL routers running Linux - or
cellphones and what-have-you - might put Linux in the lead, but then,
if you count them, every iPhone is running OS X...
Don't forget my Dish Network box (Recorder) runs Linux. So that would
count as another interactive user...
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Linux
runs very well on cheap, commodity kit. Solaris, from what I
read, still runs best on Sun kit, especially Sun SPARC kit; I just
today tried the latest 2009-06 build of OpenSolaris on my own PC, to
find that it can't drive either of my on-board Ethernet controllers,
so I can't even get online to download drivers.
I was wondering about this,
but haven't had time to try OpenSolaris, and the
last version of Solaris I tried on x86 was Solaris 7. Linux may
only have 1% of the desktop PC market, but that's 1% of an
awful lot. It is now a mass-market OS, with significant support, lots
of drivers and so on. This isn't true of the BSDs, OpenSolaris, Mac OS
X or Darwin, or indeed of *anything* else except Windows. All the
other x86 PC OSs other than Windows and Linux are still specialist,
minority tools...
If Linux only has 1% of the desktop PC market, it is a *LONG*
way behind Mac
OS X which has been increasing its market share at a nice pace.