Which is Better between open solaris 2008.11 and kubuntu 8.10

[deep_uscrap]

Hi, Frends

Can u all tell me which OS is better between opensolaris 2008.11 and kubuntu 8.10

Please Help me, i m confused, i have both kbuntu and opensolaris dvds but want to know which is better?????


Please frends

Deep

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Naturally, the better one is the one you like best. If one was truly better than the other, nobody would use the lesser one of the two. You'll need to try both to know for sure which one you like best because nobody can decide that for you.

Do report back and let us know how it goes.

[deep_uscrap]

ya, you said right, actually, now i m trying on it, i just start to using opensolaris then i will use kubuntu.

thanks agian...

Deep

[GNU-Fan]

To give a short answer, Solaris is strong in the professional server market (no, I don't mean these 10$/month root server packages you see popping up everywhere). So if you plan to apply for an administrator job in the future, ample Solaris skills may open locked doors.

For everything desktop you will still prefer Kubuntu.

[Rubberman]

Solaris (proprietary) is one of the most widely used server operating systems that run major enterprises. I worked for many years in the domain of manufacturing systems, both real time (cell control) and large-scale distributed execution systems. Our user client software ran on Windows, but all the servers ran on big-iron Unix systems - Tru64 (Dec Alpha), HPUX, AIX, and Solaris. Of those, HPUX and Solaris have the biggest market share. Performance-wise, Solaris has been the top dog, and all of them are six sigma reliable. No one who has serious manufacturing systems would even consider Windows for server-side uses, except Intel because only Windows supported the Intel chips until this decade. I spent a lot of time with Intel engineers (my best friend was one of the 2 principal architects of the x86 processor family) and in their words, Windows NT (Win2k then) was very reliable, as long as you left out the GUI and didn't run any GUI applications (server apps only)... Let's face it, Dave Cutler who was one of the principal engineers on the VAX/VMS project at DEC and also designed the NT kernel, is no slouch of a software engineer. Unfortunately, the rest of the system is a kludge - JMHO.

Since it's inception, Linux has evolved into a very solid, consistent operating system. In large part, this is due to the fact that the original kernel designer, Linus Torvalds, is till the lead of the Linux Kernel Project. I don't necessarily agree with all his design decisions - in many respects I think the system is too rigid - but it is mostly consistent, and its incorporation of standard programming api's (posix, etc) have made it a natural platform for migrating applications from big-iron Unix systems.

That said, I have developed significant software systems for generic Unix systems (all those mentioned above, and then some), and with no significant exceptions, those applications have ported to Linux with zero or few changes. I have also done kernel device driver software for Solaris (Sparc and x86), and personally prefer Linux kernel driver development, with some caveats (too technical to get into here).

So, my opinion is, determine your target "audience". Either Solaris or Linux will handle just about any high-availability computing needs you have. Linux runs on many 32 bit and 64 bit processors (including IBM mainframe hardware), while Solaris/OpenSolaris only runs on Sparc and x86 hardware. However, there are many Linux distributions, but only 2 Solaris distributions (proprietary Solaris, and OpenSolaris).

Kubuntu 8.10 is a very solid system. OpenSolaris 2008.11 is also. Install Kubuntu 8.10 and VirtualBox. Then run OpenSolaris in a virtual machine (or vice versa) and see which you prefer.